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got⋅cha
[goch-uh] 
ə
| Pronunciation Spelling. got you (usually used interjectionally). |
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| got·cha (gŏch'ə) interj. Used to indicate understanding or to signal the fact of having caught or defeated another. n. A game or endeavor in which one party seeks to catch another out, as in a mistake or lie. [Contraction of got you.] |
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gotcha
n. A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environment, that tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it both enticingly easy to invoke and completely unexpected and/or unreasonable in its outcome. For example, a classic gotcha in C is the fact that `if (a=b) code;' is syntactically valid and sometimes even correct. It puts the value of `b' into `a' and then executes `code' if `a' is non-zero. What the programmer probably meant was `if (a==b) code;', which executes `code' if `a' and `b' are equal.
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gotcha
1932, colloquial pronunciation of "(I have) got you."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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gotcha jargon, programming
A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environment, that tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it both enticingly easy to invoke and completely unexpected and/or unreasonable in its outcome.
For example, a classic gotcha in C is the fact that
if (a=b) code;
is syntactically valid and sometimes even correct. It puts the value of "b" into "a" and then executes "code" if "a" is non-zero. What the programmer probably meant was
if (a==b) code;
which executes "code" if "a" and "b" are equal.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-04-17)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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