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Nah, that's just lame. It would "make sense" with whatever character that would happen to be. Space? Makes sense. New line? Makes sense. Hash. Certainly does
by xentronium 16y ago
Nah, that's just lame. It would "make sense" with whatever character that would happen to be.
Space? Makes sense.
New line? Makes sense.
Hash. Certainly does make sense.
- burgerbrain 16y ago'*' is commonly used in globbing schemes to represent everything/anything. To my knowledge neither spaces, newlines, nor hashes also are. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Glob_%28programming%29 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Glob_%28progr...
- dexen 16y agoThis is C programming language we're talking about, right? The `*' asterisk stands pointers in C: both defining and dereferencing 'em. In a way, the free access to pointers is (a large portion of) the meaning of C -- and, by extension, C programmers' lifes. Anyway, a nice joke ;-)
- burgerbrain 16y agoEh, of all the possible contexts that '*' could be interpreted as having significant meaning, I'd definitely say unix name globbing comes before pointers in C. (though I also think interpreting '42' as an ascii sequence is looking for something where there is nothing...)