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C++ lets you assign variables with <%%> in case your parents were killed by an equals sign.
TIL about
bat! Looks awesome!Look into batman too. Its like bat but for man pages
Bat is really cool - I share your enthusiasm! As far as I remember, the repo for bat has a bunch of example use cases that I hadn't thought of, fyi!
Finally, someone gets it
I have the perfect module to use this once. Most people will see it and will figure out that it is doing what it should, but no one can change it because the file will be LFS locked like 99% of the time.
What is happening there?
Is it about templates? I can't find any reference for that syntax.
I mixed digraphs and initilization together.
Oh, I didn't know about digraphs at all. C++ is a really big language.
And wow, that's a well hidden footgun.
Feels like this thing should require an extra flag in case of
gccin this day and age, or a separate compile-time defined variable, specifically for cases where you don't want to require the flag.To be fair, the biggest footguns are the trigraphs, and now that I tested those do require a flag in gcc.
The digraphs are just hard to search, never used operator symbols.