what do we call the ~-symbol in chuck?
(I know it's a tilde, but does it have a nifty name like Sporker
or something like that, since => is named Chuck and not Arrow)
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).
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).
Anyway, as for a name for the ~, we ain't thought much about it. Let's make one up right here! How about:
the sporkilator operator?
shred assimilation facilitator?
spork-to-shred warp vector?
the twisty noodle of spork?
spork syntax compensator?
sporker? (short and sweet, good job Martin)
spork linguini?
Um, other suggestions? Thoughts?
Best,
Ge!
On Aug 3, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Kassen wrote:
On 8/3/07, Martin Ahnelöv <operagasten@gmail.com> wrote:
> spork ~ writer();
> spork ~ reader();
By the way Kassen, what do we call the ~-symbol in chuck?
(I know it's a tilde, but does it have a nifty name like Sporker
or something like that, since => is named Chuck and not Arrow)
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
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.
;¬)
Kas.
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