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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>barf</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bare-metal.html" title="bare metal"/><link rel="next" href="barfmail.html" title="barfmail"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">barf</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bare-metal.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="barfmail.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="barf"/><dt xmlns="" id="barf"><b>barf</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/barf/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common; from mainstream slang meaning ‘vomit’] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">interj.</span> Term of disgust.
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This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Valspeak “<span class="quote">gag me with a
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spoon</span>”. (Like, euwww!) See <a href="bletch.html"><i class="glossterm">bletch</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To say
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“<span class="quote">Barf!</span>” or emit some similar expression of disgust. “<span class="quote">I
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showed him my latest hack and he barfed</span>” means only that he
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complained about it, not that he literally vomited. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To fail to work because
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of unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable error message, perhaps not.
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Examples: “<span class="quote">The division operation barfs if you try to divide by
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0.</span>” (That is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide
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by zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to fail in some
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unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) “<span class="quote">The text editor barfs
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if you try to read in a new file before writing out the old
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one.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p>See <a href="../C/choke.html"><i class="glossterm">choke</i></a>. In
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Commonwealth Hackish, <span class="firstterm">barf</span> is
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generally replaced by ‘puke’ or ‘vom’.
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<a href="barf.html"><i class="glossterm">barf</i></a> is sometimes also used as a
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<a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a>, like
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<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a> or <a href="bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bare-metal.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="barfmail.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bare metal </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> barfmail</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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