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The "$work" notation could be mistaken for the Slack stock ticker. The "$" is how you commonly denote stocks, and "WORK" is the ticker for Slack.
by askafriend 7y ago
The "$work" notation could be mistaken for the Slack stock ticker. The "$" is how you commonly denote stocks, and "WORK" is the ticker for Slack.
- jamie_ca 7y agoThe $ dates back to either shell scripting or perl (and applies to PHP as well), and this is a reasonably common usage in tech/programming circles. See also $dayjob. It's unfortunate that there's a specific terminology conflict in this case.
- alias_neo 7y agoApologies, I had no idea. I was simply placing a variable for "insert workplace here".