The different characters known as "splat" ( i.e. # and *) always confused me, I figured they must have come from different programming environments. My first b

The different characters known as "splat" ( i.e. # and *) always confused me, I figured they must have come from different programming environments. My first boss called them hash and star, rather than something truly strange like "glob" which I understand came from "globbing" i.e. searching (reflecting it's use as a wildcard in a lot of systems) but I've never heard anybody say or use it in real life like that.