question mark

(thing) by gr Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:23:56
A mark of punctuation that designates the preceding clause as a question.

Can also be used in some programming languages in the ? : conditional expression to shorten if-then-else code.

Also see ?.
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(thing) by VT_hawkeye Wed Jul 12 2000 at 21:34:08
When used on Slashdot in square brackets, indicates a link to a term definition node over here on E2. translation: the E2 server's about to get a beatdown, also known as getting Slashdotted.
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