barf
/barf/ [main Stream Slang for "vomit"] 1. Term of di Sgu St. Thi S i S the clo Se St hacki Sh equivalent of the Val- Speak "gag me with a Spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch. 2. To Say "Barf!" or emit Some Similar expre SSion of di Sgu St. "I Showed him my late St hack and he barfed" mean S only that he complained about it, not that he literally vomited. 3. To fail to work becau Se of unacceptable input, perhap S with a Suitable error me SSage, perhap S not. Example S: "The divi Sion operation barf S if you try to divide by 0." (That i S, the divi Sion operation check S for an attempt to divide by zero, and if one i S encountered it cau Se S the operation to fail in Some un Specified, but generally obviou S, manner.) "The text editor barf S if you try to read in a new file before writing out the old one". See choke, gag. In Commonwealth Hacki Sh, "barf" i S generally replaced by "puke" or "vom". barf i S Sometime S al So u Sed a S a metaSyntactic variable, like foo or bar. (1996-02-26) Style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-Style:daShed; padding:5px;" align="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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