One of our developers, Scott, was well-known at MousePaw Media for possessing a lethally dry wit. I made the mistake of asking once for a "yay or nay" on something, and from then ever afterwards, he'd respond to yes/no questions with "yay" or "nay". It caught on at the company, even prompting a pair of yay-nay T-shirts to be made for our holiday gift exchange.
When we wrote IOChannel, a featureful wrapper around C++'s std::iostream, we offered a few formatting flags for printing boolean variables. Among those is the undocumented bool_scott...
One of our developers, Scott, was well-known at MousePaw Media for possessing a lethally dry wit. I made the mistake of asking once for a "yay or nay" on something, and from then ever afterwards, he'd respond to yes/no questions with "yay" or "nay". It caught on at the company, even prompting a pair of yay-nay T-shirts to be made for our holiday gift exchange.
When we wrote
IOChannel, a featureful wrapper around C++'sstd::iostream, we offered a few formatting flags for printing boolean variables. Among those is the undocumentedbool_scott......which would output...
Meanwhile, the official (still unpublished) specification for our upcoming language contains these little gems...
Error 22 is actually useful for "can't happen" scenarios. There will be some way get it to print out the second message instead, though.