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self-delete

verb

Etymology

From self- + delete.

  1. borrowed from dēlētus
  2. formed as self-delete — “self- + delete”

Definitions

  1. To commit suicide

    To commit suicide; to take one's own life.

  2. To self-destruct.

  3. Of code, to overwrite itself upon completion, usually with 0x00 or 0xFF bytes that…

    Of code, to overwrite itself upon completion, usually with 0x00 or 0xFF bytes that represent an unwritten region.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for self-delete. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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