barf /barf/ n.,v.
[common; from mainstream slang
meaning `vomit'] 1. interj. Term of disgust. This is the
closest hackish equivalent of the Valspeak "gag me with a
spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch. 2. vi. To say
"Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust. "I showed
him my latest hack and he barfed" means only that he complained
about it, not that he literally vomited. 3. vi. To fail to
work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable error
message, perhaps not. Examples: "The division operation barfs if
you try to divide by 0." (That is, the division operation checks
for an attempt to divide by zero, and if one is encountered it
causes the operation to fail in some unspecified, but generally
obvious, manner.) "The text editor barfs if you try to read in a
new file before writing out the old one." See choke,
gag. In Commonwealth Hackish, `barf' is generally replaced
by `puke' or `vom'. barf is sometimes also used as a
metasyntactic variable, like foo or
[common; from mainstream slang
meaning `vomit'] 1. interj. Term of disgust. This is the
closest hackish equivalent of the Valspeak "gag me with a
spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch. 2. vi. To say
"Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust. "I showed
him my latest hack and he barfed" means only that he complained
about it, not that he literally vomited. 3. vi. To fail to
work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable error
message, perhaps not. Examples: "The division operation barfs if
you try to divide by 0." (That is, the division operation checks
for an attempt to divide by zero, and if one is encountered it
causes the operation to fail in some unspecified, but generally
obvious, manner.) "The text editor barfs if you try to read in a
new file before writing out the old one." See choke,
gag. In Commonwealth Hackish, `barf' is generally replaced
by `puke' or `vom'. barf is sometimes also used as a
metasyntactic variable, like foo or
Related:
- barf: /barf/ [from mainstream slang meaning `vomit']
1.
interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish... - choke: v. 1. To reject input, often ungracefully. "NULs make System
V's `lpr(1)' choke." "I tried building an {EMACS} binary to
use {X},
but `cpp(1)' choked on all those `#define's." See... - gag vi.
Equivalent to choke, but connotes more
disgust.
"Hey, this is FORTRAN code. No wonder the C compiler... - gag: vi. Equivalent to {choke}, but connotes more disgust.
"Hey, this is FORTRAN code. No wonder the C compiler... - metasyntactic variable n.
A name used in examples and
understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion,
or any random member of a class of things under... - choke v.
1. [common] To reject input, often
ungracefully.
"NULs make System V's lpr(1) choke." "I tried building... - foo /foo/
1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very
common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely
anything,
esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First... - bletch /blech/ interj.
[very common; from
Yiddish/German `brechen',
to vomit, poss. via comic-strip exclamation `blech']... - bletch: /blech/ [from Yiddish/German `brechen', to vomit,
poss. via comic-strip exclamation `blech'] interj...
