contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 year agoTIL That the symbol ^ is called a "caret" not a "carrot", from the Latin meaning "it lacks"en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up152arrow-down1external-linkTIL That the symbol ^ is called a "caret" not a "carrot", from the Latin meaning "it lacks"en.wikipedia.orgcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 year agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareowenfromcanada@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoI didn’t know the Latin meaning. Makes more sense in the context of regex, now.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoMaybe kinda? With matching the start of a line, it makes as much sense as $ matching EOL.
minus-squareowenfromcanada@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoYeah, not the start of line, but the inverse of the “any” pattern.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoYeah. We learned it as Circonflexe anyway, right? I know that carried from high school into coding well before I heard the Latin ;-)
minus-squareBearOfaTime@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoTIL in French it’s “circonflexe” and English it’s “circumflex”. I’m guessin this is another Daniel Webster moment.
minus-squareowenfromcanada@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoCirconflexe? Haven’t heard that name in a long time…
I didn’t know the Latin meaning. Makes more sense in the context of regex, now.
Maybe kinda? With matching the start of a line, it makes as much sense as $ matching EOL.
Yeah, not the start of line, but the inverse of the “any” pattern.
Yeah. We learned it as Circonflexe anyway, right? I know that carried from high school into coding well before I heard the Latin ;-)
TIL in French it’s “circonflexe” and English it’s “circumflex”.
I’m guessin this is another Daniel Webster moment.
Circonflexe? Haven’t heard that name in a long time…