ampersand

I'm not really sure why they reused the ampersand to represent a reference type. Were there no other symbols left?

Foo p { rules go here } Here are the examples from the article: &:hover { opacity: 1; } The ampersand simply means 'I am applied in the context of whatever rule I happen to be in'. So, .

You mean an ampersand? #/& were the original channel prefixes.

We've tried to do that "hard work of pulling together modules and make sure that work together" he refers to, for the core stuff in ampersand. Also, it's worth noting that there's no cost in installing a big framework on the server side.

The ampersand is a ligature representing the Latin word "et". To make the title grammatically and typographically correct, you'd need to go with either "etc."

Fixed binary XHR for Firefox nightly builds fixed terminal height for the less command fixed ampersand output in the terminal.

Sleep 10 && echo hello && echo world & The ampersand at the end is important. If you leave it off, Emacs remains unresponsive for the ten seconds during which the shell process runs. If you include the ampersand at the end, on the other hand, you can switch buffers and perform unrelated tasks while the shell process is running.

I'm not complaining on the use of the ampersand, but unlike many people seem to believe, it's not semantically equivalent to "and". Beyond just joining two items in a phrase, the ampersand marks an association between them and emphasizes it as a single definite idea, a "thing".