SuliacLEGUILLOU / programing_quirks

This repository is an extention of the talk "Turning 'wat' into 'why'" by Katie McLaughlin given at the PyCon 2019

printf buffer (C)

printf works by storing the processed version of the string it is given and only print them when its buffer contain a '\n' or when the buffer is flushed. This is done to prevent multiple call to the write syscall

function to string (js)

the toString() value of a Js function is the source code of the function.

console.log + {} has some interesting result

module to string (Js)

Same as above, the string value of a module (or class in ES6) is the source of this module

console.log buffer (Browser side Js)

To avoid costly print operation, the browser does not print the result of a console.log immediatly on browser side.

As a result, if you update an object after logging its raw value, the updated version may show up