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@[email protected] · 2 years ago

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@[email protected] · 2 years ago

Still not as good as whence

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

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

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

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

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

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] · 2 years ago

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

LeFrog · edit-2 2 years 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] · edit-2 2 years 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 ....