Re^8: One to one file output idiom

If the subject is a person, it should mean vomiting.

In German "speien" can also mean spitting out or with big force (like spitting out disgusting food or spitting with disgust onto s.o. face)

I suppose it's not much different in English.

As I already said, this might be accurate for writing a whole file at once, I don't see how "slurping" (which is actually a Dutch/German loan word) reflects "gulping" a whole file.

Cheers Rolf
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Re^9: One to one file output idiom by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 23, 2020 at 18:41 UTC
It's a perfectly cromulent usage going back to the ancients: slurp Clojure uses the pair spit and slurp, coincidentally. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]
Re^9: One to one file output idiom by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 24, 2020 at 03:32 UTC
You do realize that English diverged from German like a thousand years ago, right?	[reply]
Re^10: One to one file output idiom by LanX (Saint) on Jan 24, 2020 at 11:05 UTC
Sure, I remember it like it was yesterday. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]