▲ 182 ▼ How was life back then? (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by zephyr@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world 36 comments fedilink hide all child comments And what was the state of Linux when proprietary instant messaging apps were popular?
[–] wetferret@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) I always knew (*) as the cat/dog butthole. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] evatronic@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago My favorite bit of trivia on this subject is that in Perl, if you have something list-like with lots of potentially empty values where the length isn't the same as the number of things in the list, you can force list context and get a quick count by assigning to an empty list. The end result is the unofficial "buttse" operator: =()=. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago My favorite bit of trivia on this subject is that in Perl, if you have something list-like with lots of potentially empty values where the length isn't the same as the number of things in the list, you can force list context and get a quick count by assigning to an empty list. The end result is the unofficial "buttse" operator: =()=. permalink fedilink source parent
