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Still not as good as
whenceIs this a reference to something because I’d love to read it if you have a time to share.
Woah. I did a quick google and it's not just a meme, but actually used in some major lang's libraries.
This is one of those "modern Google/search sucks" moments because I couldn't immediately find examples of it in a programming language.
I actually used DDG and most I've seen, they're just used as arguments for functions notably in C and Python
It is used in
kshkorn shell to see what executable responds to a command:https://superuser.com/a/351995
Edit: Oh, what a rabbit hole: Why not use "which"? What to use then?
Legislation (which feels similar to programming languages sometimes) seems to have some keywords of its own. I remember seeing a lot of
Whereas ...andHaving regard to ....