It's a standard that everyone knows because they have been bitten by it. :(
I was curious about it being limited to the UNIX world, and indeed, C# is the only C-like language that does not have this feature. On the UNIX side, even Go decided to keep them [0]. Python dropped them in v3 but I'm not sure if that counts as a UNIXy language or not...
I was curious about it being limited to the UNIX world, and indeed, C# is the only C-like language that does not have this feature. On the UNIX side, even Go decided to keep them [0]. Python dropped them in v3 but I'm not sure if that counts as a UNIXy language or not...
[0] http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thr...