walk = W = walking drives

walk off the end of vt.

To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it -- a good way to land in trouble. Often the result of an off-by-one error. Compare clobber, roach, smash the stack.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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