Re:Stop Me If You've Seen This Word Before
by dwwatk01 on Thursday November 13, 2008 @08:13AM
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I ran into a similar problem teaching myself perl a couple years ago by doing a short tutorial then foolishly jumping into a co-worker's code. "What the hell is '$.'? Hmm, well I'm sure Google can help me. What? No matching documents?!? What is this crazy s.o.b. doing here??"
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Re:Stop Me If You've Seen This Word Before
by a-priori on Thursday November 13, 2008 @10:03AM
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Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's had trouble with this. I remember reading some C code once and I saw some strange operators I had never seen before... <? and >?, if I remember correctly.
I eventually figured out they were GCC extensions for "min" and "max", but only after a painful experience trying to get more info out of Google than "here's how you do addition and multiplication in C!"
Re:Stop Me If You've Seen This Word Before
by technoguyrob on Thursday November 13, 2008 @06:21PM
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Re:Stop Me If You've Seen This Word Before
by jrockway on Thursday November 13, 2008 @10:28PM
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$. -> "perldoc perlvar" -> $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER -> http://www.google.com/search?q=%24INPUT_LINE_NUMBER+perl
Re:Stop Me If You've Seen This Word Before
by technoguyrob on Thursday November 13, 2008 @06:19PM
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