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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Still not as good as whence

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is this a reference to something because I’d love to read it if you have a time to share.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Woah. I did a quick google and it's not just a meme, but actually used in some major lang's libraries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is one of those "modern Google/search sucks" moments because I couldn't immediately find examples of it in a programming language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I actually used DDG and most I've seen, they're just used as arguments for functions notably in C and Python

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It is used in ksh korn shell to see what executable responds to a command:

https://superuser.com/a/351995

Edit: Oh, what a rabbit hole: Why not use "which"? What to use then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Legislation (which feels similar to programming languages sometimes) seems to have some keywords of its own. I remember seeing a lot of Whereas ... and Having regard to ....