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I am fascinated by his use of backslash-escaping the tweet EOD to signify that it's being followed by another one.
by lilyball 5y ago
I am fascinated by his use of backslash-escaping the tweet EOD to signify that it's being followed by another one.
- supernintendo 5y agoI suppose it takes less characters than marking the ordinal of the tweet and probably familiar to Carmack's technically-minded audience as escaping the return character in a command line (to add a new line to the command instead of running it).
- saagarjha 5y agoIt is also how you continue a line in a preprocessor macro.