Weird programming operators: Elvis, Walrus, Spaceship, and Turbofish!

Programmers are really ingenious fellows who love coming up with weird names. Today I want to tell you about some of the most curious names for programming constructs I've encountered!

Vojta Struhár
Dev Genius
Published in
4 min readMar 14, 2023

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The Elvis operator

We've all heard about the King of Pop and his iconic hairstyle. Well, this operator is named just after that. And once you see it, it never goes away.

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