<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">what do we call the ~-symbol in chuck?<BR style="">(I know it's a tilde, but does it have a nifty name like Sporker<BR style="">or something like that, since => is named Chuck and not Arrow)</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This is a very good question (thanks Kassen for the redirect though I believe he is as much of an authority on spork/chuck-related issues as anyone. FYI: I do love sea salt, especially on deep-fried triple cheeseburgers - don't bother tossing those over your shoulder, unless of course I am standing directly behind you).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Okay, for those who may be wondering about its function/origin, the ~ after the spork really serves no practical purpose that we are aware of (since sporking is such a fundamental operation in chuck, we thought it deserves its own syntactic sugar/wasabi/etc, and so the ~ was added to make the spork more prominent in code - quite possibly a horrible idea except it might be extended to other operators for different flavors of spork in the future).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Anyway, as for a name for the ~, we ain't thought much about it. Let's make one up right here! How about:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> the sporkilator operator?</DIV><DIV> shred assimilation facilitator?</DIV><DIV> spork-to-shred warp vector?</DIV><DIV> the twisty noodle of spork?</DIV><DIV> spork syntax compensator?</DIV><DIV> sporker? (short and sweet, good job Martin)</DIV><DIV> spork linguini?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Um, other suggestions? Thoughts?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>Ge!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV>On Aug 3, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Kassen wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 8/3/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Martin Ahnelöv</B> <<A href="mailto:operagasten@gmail.com">operagasten@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <BR>> spork ~ writer();<BR>> spork ~ reader();<BR><BR>By the way Kassen, what do we call the ~-symbol in chuck?<BR>(I know it's a tilde, but does it have a nifty name like Sporker<BR>or something like that, since => is named Chuck and not Arrow) </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR><BR>This is such a advanced subject that I dare not speak on it. I porpose that we all chant in the direction of Princeton while chucking ceremonial salt over our shoulder <BR></DIV>and hope Ge will speak on this. I believe Ge is font of eating so using real sea salt or celery salt might speed up the process. <BR><BR>;¬)<BR>Kas.<BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">chuck-users mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu">chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users">https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>