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They're Made Out of Makes

with apologies to Terry Bisson, and to whoever first typed make make

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"They're made out of makes."

"Makes?"

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#!/bin/sh
# ISC License

# Copyright (c) 2026 Alexandre Gomes Gaigalas <alganet@gmail.com>

# Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
# purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
# copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES

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Respect\Validation v3.0

Version 3.0 is a major release that modernizes the API, improves error handling, and introduces powerful new validation features. This release contains breaking changes and requires migration efforts from v2.x.

Breaking Changes

• PHP 8.5+ required (v2.x required PHP 8.1+)
• Main entry point renamed to ValidatorBuilder (global v alias available)
• Unified ValidationException (validator-specific and nested exceptions removed)
• validate() now returns a ResultQuery object

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<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

// ISC License

// Copyright (c) 2025, Alexandre Gomes Gaigalas <alganet@gmail.com>

// Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
// purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above

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#!/bin/sh

# ISC License

# Copyright (c) 2025, Alexandre Gomes Gaigalas <alganet@gmail.com>

# Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
# purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
# copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

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# Copyright (c) Alexandre Gomes Gaigalas <alganet@gmail.com>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC

_repeat () {
	case "${2:-}" in
		0|"") return;;
		1) REPLY="$1"; return;;
		2) REPLY="$1$1"; return;;
		3) REPLY="$1$1$1"; return;;
		4) REPLY="$1$1$1$1"; return;;

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Me: Pretend you are a bat. How is the feeling of echolocating walls using sonar?

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ChatGPT3: As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have the ability to experience sensory input like a bat. I am only able to process and generate text based on the input that I receive from a user. I do not have the ability to experience echolocation or any other sensory input.

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#!/usr/bin/env sh

# Backup of a draft with support for many shells: 
# bash, dash, zsh, posh, yash, ksh, mksh, oksh, busybox and so on. 
#
# I tested every single one of them.
#
# Boilerplate doesn't do much. It normalizes local vars, and exposes
# basic functions:
#

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set -euf
PATH=
IFS=' '

# Shells like dash and posh don't have the substring parameter expansion
# commonly found in bash and zsh.
#
# To make iterating over each char fast, instead of breaking each
# char individually (which forces the shell to deal with the entire
# string twice, due to the nature of parameter substitution), we

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set -euf
PATH=
IFS=
_r=
_v=0 # variable counter
_f=1 # scopedion namespace
_x=0 # parser namespace

! command -v emulate >/dev/null 2>&1 || emulate ksh >/dev/null 2>&1