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Andrew Tropin

What "Clownshoes semantics" means?

I was tracing the issue and stumbled upon this phrase in the comment in Guile source code, I'm really puzzled.

git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guil

#guile #scheme #lisp

25 April at 8:21 | Open on fosstodon.org
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David Wilson

@abcdw I think "clown shoes" is another way to say "ridiculous" or "silly"

25 April at 8:26 | Open on fosstodon.org
Andy Wingo

@abcdw i forget. but, i think it's that instead of returning EAGAIN like everything else on a nonblocking fd, connect returns EINPROGRESS until it is first writable.

25 April at 8:30 | Open on mastodon.social
Daniel Kochmański

@abcdw casually it means "remarkably bad" or "laughable"; but I don't know whether it has more specific meaning in this context.

25 April at 8:38 | Open on functional.cafe
dgr

@abcdw I would go with ridiculously oversized but no idea if it would fit the context.

28 April at 12:47 | Open on toot.li
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