• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    99.999% of that function’s effectiveness is that unix shell, being the ancient dinosaur it is, not just allows : as a function name but also uses the exact same declaration syntax for symbol and alphanumeric functions:

    foo(){ foo | foo& }; foo
    

    is way more obvious.

    EDIT: Yeah I give up I’m not going to try to escape that &