"leaning toothpick syndrome" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: Introduced in the official Perl documentation, in reference to the shape of the backslash character. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} leaning toothpick syndrome (uncountable)
  1. (programming) The situation in which a quoted string expression becomes difficult to read because it contains a large number of escape characters, usually backslashes, to avoid delimiter collision. Wikipedia link: leaning toothpick syndrome Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Programming Synonyms: LTS

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