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Heh. I'm not amongst the top 10k, but I've been cursing yesterday, trying to use search to find out in what version / gem of ruby {|[]| } is a valid block (with just being random variable names). And a week before that the same problem when trying to find out what &@/ ment in a mathematica script.

Search engines tend to ignore symbols in normal search, and while you can search for symbols in google's code search, that doesn't include any documentation or pages where they explain a particular syntax.



Indeed. Good luck finding out information for the common shell <<END feature if you don't know that's called a "here document".




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