leaning toothpick syndrome

noun

Etymology

Introduced in the official Perl documentation, in reference to the shape of the backslash character.

Definitions

  1. The situation in which a quoted string expression becomes difficult to read because it…

    The situation in which a quoted string expression becomes difficult to read because it contains a large number of escape characters, usually backslashes, to avoid delimiter collision.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for leaning toothpick syndrome. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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