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Dear Universe,

Please stop dumping all kinds of terrible, stressful crap on people I like. I think they've all more then met their quotas for the year decade century, so go pick on someone else already. Sheesh.

Not much love,

Me

So it's a girl value. *

Hauled out my copy of the Camel Book to look up something on dereferencing and tripped over this nugget of joy:

A hard reference refers not to the name of another variable (which is just a container for a value) but rather to an actual value, some internal glob of data, which we will call a "thingy", in honor of that thingy that hangs down in the back of your throat. (You may also call it a "referent", if you prefer to live a joyless existence.)

Don't you hate when you look at code you wrote a year ago and don't have the slightest idea anymore what you were doing when you did X? Not "why did I choose to do this", but "what does this even mean"? *facepalm*


* "That's the house's uvula." "So it's a girl house." (from "Monster House")