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dws ++ - a useful idiom in many circumstances. But why "orcish"?

§ George Sherston

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Date comparison
by dws (Chancellor) on Jul 08, 2002 at 16:49 UTC
    But why "orcish"?

    The Orcish Maneuver gets its name from the use of the "or" assignment operator (||=) to "cache" values within a Schwartzian transform. "or" + "cache" --> "orcish".