Re: select("#", ...) idiom

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Subject: Re: select("#", ...) idiom
From: Doug Currie <doug.currie@...>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:45:59 -0400

LA> I dislike the suddenly-popular select( "#", ... ) idiom because it is
LA> uninformative (no selection is made), complicates select with unrelated
LA> behavior, and misappropriates the # symbol.

Given that # is the length operator, perhaps the token #... could be
used for this purpose.

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References:
- select("#", ...) idiom, Lucas Ackerman

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