barf
/barf/ [mainstream slang f OR "vomit"] 1. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val-speak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch. 2. To say "Barf!" OR emit some similar expression of disgust. "I showed him my latest hack and he barfed" means only that he complained about it, not that he literally vomited. 3. To fail to w ORk because of unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable err OR message, perhaps not. Examples: "The division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0." (That is, the division operation checks f OR an attempt to divide by zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to fail in some unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The text edit OR barfs if you try to read in a new file bef ORe writing out the old one". See choke, gag. In Commonwealth Hackish, "barf" is generally replaced by "puke" OR "vom". barf is sometimes also used as a metasyntactic variable, like foo OR bar. (1996-02-26) 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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