walk off the end of
walk off the end of vt.
To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it — a good way to land in trouble. Often the result of an off-by-one error. Compare clobber, roach, smash the stack.
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walk off the end ofwalk off the end of vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it — a good way to land in trouble. Often the result of an off-by-one error. Compare clobber, roach, smash the stack. |
The Jargon FileCartoonsThe crunchly saga
The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions. |