barf
/barf/ [mainstream slang for "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 show ed him my latest hack and he barf ed" means only that he complain ed about it, not that he literally vomit ed. 3. To fail to work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable error message, perhaps not. Examples: "The division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0." (That is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide by zero, and if one is encounter ed it causes the operation to fail in some unspecifi ed, but generally obvious, manner.) "The text editor barfs if you try to read in a new file before writing out the old one". See choke, gag. In Commonwealth Hackish, "barf" is generally replac ed by "puke" or "vom". barf is sometimes also us ed 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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