A standardized lexicon of terminology for punctuation and other nonalphabetic characters.
| Symbol | Name |
|---|---|
| / | (front) whack |
| \ | back whack |
| ? | interrowhack |
| ! | bang whack |
| : | eyes whack |
| ; | wink whack |
| ( ) | left/right curved whack |
| [ ] | left/right brack whack |
| { } | left/right fancy whack |
| < | less whack |
| > | more whack |
| = | same whack |
| + | cross whack |
| * | star whack |
| # | hash whack |
| $ | dolla whack |
| & | and whack |
| % | mod whack |
| ^ | hat whack |
| | | tall whack |
| ~ | wiggle whack |
| @ | splat whack |
| ☰ | stack whack |
| _ | underwhack |
| ¯ | overwhack |
| – | n whack |
| — | m whack |
| 🍎 | mac whack |
| 🦆 | quack whack |
| 👍 | ack whack |
| 🌮 | snack whack |
| 🏀 | shaq whack |
Many Microsoft employees use the word "whack" to describe slashes. Whether the whack is a front slash or backslash is dependent must be derived from context clues. This project started as a way to disambiguate between whacks, but quickly expanded into a general lexicon for the description of punctuation and other nonalphabetic characters.
whacks uses semver:
- Major: the name or symbol of a whack is changed or a whack is deleted
- Minor: a new whack is added
- Patch: other (typos, etc.)