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by jlokier 2737 days ago
Yup.

The muscle memory is so strong, when writing Javascript/Typescript I type # by accident sometimes.

But then, // is one of the most commonly used operators in another language I use, so it's weirdly symmetrical :)

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Curious: which language?
Perl, the defined-or operator.

Like ||, but // tests definedness instead of truthiness.

The equivalent in several other languages is ??, which is uglier imho, but it's just syntax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_coalescing_operator

I use // and ?? often as it's conceptually clean, fast and concise. When available, it arises naturally in logic like caches, memoizations and defaults. //= is pretty useful too, and I'm surprised it's not more widely available.

Python uses it for integer division. Typically it is meant as "divide and floor" as far as I've seen.