Talk:Gotcha (programming)
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The text is from Eric S. Raymonds Jargon File, which is in the public domain. See [1] for details. D.Cutter 15:14, 4 Feb 2005 (CET)
[edit] Why I deleted the Transwiki tag
Gotchas are potentially vast subject and it is extreeeeeemly useful to have a page warning people of some of the common gotchas.Dejvid 11:20, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Notability
Googling for programming gotcha yields 619,000 hits. Clearly it's notable, though I'm not sure how to "establish" this in the text. More examples in more languages would help. Perhaps a reference to books on the subject, such as Koenig's C Traps and Pitfalls? Tualha (Talk) 10:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Number of hits in Google does not establish notability. The phrase "purple donkey" yeilds 1,480,000 results. This article should either be broadened to include every kind of gotcha (including those having nothing to do with computers)-- or deleted. Gotcha is a general term. (-XDXFP 4:13PM / Nov 17th)
- Okay. This is clearly a topic that's not confined to be a dicdef. Gotchas as a programming term are well known among programmers. Thus, probably notable (we don't have notability guide for technical concepts, though, but the gut feeling says this is important). If the article was expanded to cover more on the usage, then this would be definitely notable. I'll thus remove the notability tags and tag it for expansion instead. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 14:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Gotchas in the C programing language
This section is about C programming language but the example code is written in C++. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.21.19.168 (talk) 01:19, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
yes and this function parathesis is NOT a gotcha, you just HAVE to know how declarations are working. if you do it 'by eye' then i agree. and == = := is kind of corect 84.16.123.194 (talk) 00:41, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
