To be fair, the apprentice spell is technically formulated as just “Explode”. It’s just that without an argument specified, it defaults to the largest target within range, which by default incudes the entire solar system.
99% of the time it’s fine, because 99% of the time the person who wrote the Makefile undertands Makefiles and knows that the first thing you do is define a default target. A default target that’s chosen reasonably is a very nice feature of make because there are no standard names for targets, and no easy way to find out the names of targets other than trying to read the Makefile, which can be a pain in the ass.
To be fair, the apprentice spell is technically formulated as just “Explode”. It’s just that without an argument specified, it defaults to the largest target within range, which by default incudes the entire solar system.
oh god early career, coding on a 20 year old program
using makefiles to compile while on a remote host
lack of target resulted in trying to programatically delete the remote hosts root
thank good i did not have the permission
why is defaulting like this a thing instead of a syntax error?
Bash. Bash is why.
99% of the time it’s fine, because 99% of the time the person who wrote the Makefile undertands Makefiles and knows that the first thing you do is define a default target. A default target that’s chosen reasonably is a very nice feature of make because there are no standard names for targets, and no easy way to find out the names of targets other than trying to read the Makefile, which can be a pain in the ass.
Apprentice mages usually begin by aiming at their own feet and yelling the incantation, some immediately turn to aim at the sun “just because”
that’s why the sun is always exploding