Julia Evans on Nostr: one fun thing about teaching adults is that if I say something that is true but ...
one fun thing about teaching adults is that if I say something that is true but doesn’t seem plausible people will just not believe me (this is fine, I don't automatically believe implausible statements people make either)
anyway I'm spending a lot of time today reading the readline source code to justify an implausible statement ("REPLs don't always automatically exit when you press Ctrl-D on an empty line, many of them specifically implement support for that”)
https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/6794b5478f660256a1023712b5fc169196ed0a22/lib/readline/readline.c#L658-L672
anyway I'm spending a lot of time today reading the readline source code to justify an implausible statement ("REPLs don't always automatically exit when you press Ctrl-D on an empty line, many of them specifically implement support for that”)
https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/6794b5478f660256a1023712b5fc169196ed0a22/lib/readline/readline.c#L658-L672