Comment by squigz
4 days ago
> £JOB
Wait a second, do people use $ for `$job` because it's how they earn money and not, as I've always thought, used it as a variable name?
Stop throwing my entire world view out of order please.
4 days ago
> £JOB
Wait a second, do people use $ for `$job` because it's how they earn money and not, as I've always thought, used it as a variable name?
Stop throwing my entire world view out of order please.
I actually don't know, I just assume the majority of people are americans and that's why they use $. I don't use $ in programming except for string interpolation, so it's never really registered as a variable sigil to me
Every time I use $word in a comment is to be reminiscent of POSIX-style string interpolation for some word. The vast majority of cases where I've seen it are such, only if "word" is numeric do I expect $ is used as a currency symbol.
Oh no my PHPness is showing!
Also, many, many countries use $, like Canada.
If you think it would reflect on you better, think of it as indicating regular POSIX shell use?!
(I'm 99% sure it's intended to be reminiscent of that sort of syntax. Example use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42761939)
> I don't use $ in programming except for string interpolation
... but the entire point of the "$JOB" etc. slang is that it's a string interpolation...
Not how I use it, string interpolation would be $"{job}"
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The $ is for variables. And the upper case make it a BASIC variable, instead of something like Perl or PHP.
Some times people put it in angle brackets <JOB>. I have no idea what system use variables like that.
Templates use this syntax in some languages.