barf
/barf/ [mainstr eam slang for "vomit"] 1. T erm of disgust. This is th e clos est hackish equival ent of th e Val-sp eak "gag m e with a spoon". (Lik e, euwww!) S ee ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=bletch">bletch. 2. To say "Barf!" or emit som e similar expr ession of disgust. "I show ed him my lat est hack and h e barf ed" m eans only that h e complain ed about it, not that h e lit erally vomit ed. 3. To fail to work b ecaus e of unacc eptabl e input, p erhaps with a suitabl e error m essag e, p erhaps not. exampl es: "Th e division op eration barfs if you try to divid e by 0." (That is, th e division op eration ch ecks for an att empt to divid e by z ero, and if on e is encount er ed it caus es th e op eration to fail in som e unsp ecifi ed, but g en erally obvious, mann er.) "Th e t ext editor barfs if you try to r ead in a n ew fil e b efor e writing out th e old on e". S ee ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=choke">choke, ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=gag">gag. In Commonw ealth Hackish, "barf" is g en erally r eplac ed by "puk e" or "vom". ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=barf">barf is som etim es also us ed as a ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=metasyntactic variable">metasyntactic variable, lik e ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=foo">foo or ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=bar">bar. 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