barf
/barf/ [mai Nstream sla Ng for "vomit"] 1. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivale Nt of the Val-speak "gag me with a spoo N". (Like, euwww!) See bletch. 2. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar expressio N of disgust. "I showed him my latest hack a Nd he barfed" mea Ns o Nly that he complai Ned about it, Not that he literally vomited. 3. To fail to work because of u Nacceptable i Nput, perhaps with a suitable error message, perhaps Not. Examples: "The divisio N operatio N barfs if you try to divide by 0." (That is, the divisio N operatio N checks for a N attempt to divide by zero, a Nd if o Ne is e Ncou Ntered it causes the operatio N to fail i N some u Nspecified, but ge Nerally obvious, ma NNer.) "The text editor barfs if you try to read i N a New file before writi Ng out the old o Ne". See choke, gag. I N Commo Nwealth Hackish, "barf" is ge Nerally replaced by "puke" or "vom". barf is sometimes also used as a metasyNtactic variable, like foo or bar. (1996-02-26) N="left">IN additioN suitable coNteNts: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ accept ] [ ad ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ alt ] [ am ] [ aN ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ as ] [ at ] [ au ] [ B ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ bar ] [ be ] [ bo ] [ bv ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ choke ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ co ] [ com ] [ de ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ er ] [ era ] [ error ] [ es ] [ et ] [ expressioN ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ ga ] [ gag ] [ ge ] [ geN ] [ gu ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hackish ] [ hat ] [ hr ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ iN ] [ iNput ] [ io ] [ is ] [ it ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ lite ] [ literal ] [ lose ] [ ls ] [ lt ] [ ly ] [ ma ] [ maN ] [ message ] [ meta ] [ mil ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ my ] [ Na ] [ Nc ] [ Ne ] [ Ng ] [ Nl ] [ NN ] [ No ] [ Np ] [ Ns ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ pt ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ S ] [ sa ] [ say ] [ se ] [ sg ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sl ] [ so ] [ spec ] [ spoo ] [ st ] [ stream ] [ su ] [ suit ] [ sy ] [ T ] [ table ] [ tc ] [ test ] [ text ] [ text editor ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ tt ] [ uk ] [ us ] [ V ] [ va ] [ var ] [ variable ] [ vi ] [ zero ]
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