When Scope Resolution Matters

Description

A small dark-mode chat screenshot shows a user named "gingerbread man" with the timestamp "Today at 7:27 PM". The message reads, "... I just uhh searched \"std list\" instead of \"std::list\" got very different results". The joke relies on C++'s `std::list` type and the missing scope-resolution operator, where an innocent standard-library lookup becomes an awkward web search because "std" means something entirely different outside programming.

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick One missing scope-resolution operator and the browser switched namespaces from `<list>` to `<clinic>`.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

One missing scope-resolution operator and the browser switched namespaces from `<list>` to `<clinic>`.
Deleted Account 5y

uhh
1. Max Ting 5y
  
  Bruh
2. @AmindaEU 5y
  
  Google spies you and thus considers you to be more likely to be looking for programming
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  you could say that, or you could say that google remembers what you want. It's a difficult topic, really.
@NiKryukov 5y

I googled big boob and get 2 billion results
@HellAbyss 5y

Understandable have a good day
@AmindaEU 5y

https://start.duckduckgo.com/?q=std+list&ia=about does also suggest std::list