I was about to use the table.find() function but then it showed this? what does it even mean
I dont remember any of those words being there and im very confused at the moment
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They’re the parameter names the table.find function uses. It’s a neat little reference to the saying “It’s like finding a needle in a haystack!” (to say something’s really hard to find or will take ages/lots to search), where the haystack is the table and the needle is the value being searched for. It’s commonly used in programming to describe searching for a value within a larger data structure.
Basically, table.find conducts a linear search on the table for the value and returns the index of the first occurence of the needle.
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Very unnecessary feature but thanks for explaining. Couldve been easier if they just used proper names
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idk, even programmers need humor sometimes lol
also needle in a haystack is commonly used in programming to refer to such a case
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its a lot less professional but to me it makes more sense with needle and haystack than whatever the alternative would be lol
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