What is this and what is its purpose?

[TheCatsMeow]

So in my comp. sci. class, we were given an exam review booklet. One of the questions asks us to identify something and explain the purpose of it.

Example: %, <, +, :=

My question is.. What is :# and what is it used for? Does it even exist?

[Tony]

Those are all operators. Yes, := exists. It's probably used in just about every piece of an example code.

[ProgrammingFun]

Is it just me or does the one he/she is asking for look like :#

[2goto1]

Interesting, what was the programming language of the test? I haven't seen :# before.

[Insectoid]

I vaguely remember being able to add that to the end of a put to format it differently, but that's very vague and might be completely different.

[Tony]

if :# means :<number> such as :4 then yes, it could be used to format strings for put statements. Something like

code:

put "foo":10, "bar"

[2goto1]

Ah, could be. I guess without seeing the original question it's hard to say, good catch