• Dyskolos
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    I really really dig the fuckaround/findout. It paints the try/catch with a more dreadful undertone and reeks of mystery.

    • noughtnaut
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      As well as the yeet keyword, I’m really friggin’ diggin’ this. [modernisation required]

    • @[email protected]
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      3124 days ago

      The whole thing was pretty damn good all the way through. The only thing that had me wondering was

      Tea
      

      Until it got to

      SpillTea
      

      Well played.

      • @[email protected]
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        624 days ago

        NGL, that helped me actually understand the original function. It’s been over a decade since I’ve touched anything related to C.

      • Dyskolos
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        Indeed. I was unfair of me to pick only one favourite, as there are more candidates :)

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah, I love that one.

      “Try” is too hopeful. “fuck_around” makes it clear that you know what you’re doing is dangerous but you’re going to do it anyhow. I know that in some languages wrapping a lot of code in exception blocks is the norm, but I don’t like that. I think it should be something you only use rarely, and when you do it’s because you know you’re doing something that’s not safe in some way.

      “Catch” has never satisfied me. I mean, I know what it does, but it doesn’t seem to relate to “try”. Really, if “try” doesn’t succeed, the corresponding block should be “fail”. But, then you’d have the confusion of a block named “fail”, which isn’t ideal. But “find_out” pairs perfectly with “fuck_around” and makes it clear that if you got there it’s because something went wrong.

      I also like “yeet”. Partly it’s fun for comedic value. But, it’s also good because “throw” feels like a casual game of catch in the park. “Yeet” feels more like it’s out of control, if you hit a “throw” your code isn’t carefully handing off its state, it’s hitting the eject button and hoping for the best. You hope there’s an exception handler higher up the stack that will do the right thing, but it also might just bubble all the way up to the top and spit out a nasty exception for the user.

    • Demigodrick
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      HAI 1.2
      CAN HAS STDIO?
      IM IN YR LOOP UPPIN YR VAR TIL BOTH SAEM VAR AN 10
          VISIBLE SUM OF VAR AN 1
      IM OUTTA YR LOOP
      KTHXBYE
      

      A perfectly reasonable language. None of this Gen Z rubbish.

      Something something better times. Shakes stick at sky.

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          My 21 year old is pretty into rust and html. Does that count?

          I’m pretty ignorant on most of it. In my youth, I just dabbled trying to lean basic on a c64 and AMOS on the Amiga though, so maybe not lol

          e: I think I missed the joke, probably because I’m old lol

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      2224 days ago

      For some reason, this just sparked an ancient memory of the Geek Code, which was a sort of signature block you could append to your emails and online bios to show off how much of a geek you were in the geekiest fashion possible.

      Goddamn I’m old.

      • Rob Bos
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        324 days ago

        Remember it spawning a bunch of copycats? For a while every community had their own code block. I wrote one for a usenet group i was in at the time.

        alt.sysadmin and alt.sysadmin.recovery both had em iirc…

      • @[email protected]
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        Wow, hadn’t thought of that thing in ages. Now all we need is for B1FF to bring back ASCII sword signatures.

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    Ugh. Just

    its_giving rizz ratios vibe;

    No more needless nesting plz

    • @[email protected]
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      Considering vibe is probalby float, I doubt any exceptions can be thrown there, you can eliminate another useless scope.

      Even if it’s not float, I’d consider burning alive anyone who overrides an operator like this anyway.

      • @[email protected]
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        1224 days ago

        Haven’t published it yet.

        Here are comparisons:

        ⚖️

        🐲

        🐲⚖️

        ⚖️🐲

        🚫🐲⚖️

          • @[email protected]
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            Sure! It doesn’t do anything yet, I just have a text file with how I’m intending to architect it.

            It quite literally started two four (edit: I can’t keep track of time) days ago.

            I’ll configure a repo, stick this in a file, and push it. I’ll reply with another comment so you (and others) can look it up.

            I’ve come up with some crazy stuff. Instead of something like “class” to indicate a class, it’s

            🏫 Followed by the emoji name of the class like 🖼️📁. So it will need to be able to handle operators in the name it’s amazingly gross! Properties and methods will also be emoji names, like to get the 🖼️📁 “File Name” it would be 📁💳.

            • @[email protected]
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              I was kind of being sarcastic. I haven’t written a compiler since I rode my dinosaur to college. Still it’s a funny idea. Could probably do it in C using a bunch of pound defines.

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                I was thinking Rust, but that works too.

                Because then I could call the Language Spoons.

                It would as uncomfortable to use as it is to watch Rusty Spoons

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    Just needs a rap about the fun in functions performed by 60-year-old seniors

      • UnfortunateShort
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        It’s because we are depressed nihilists who have given up on pretty much everything, running on gallows homour to a point where we are meming youth slang. Don’t worry, we’re fine haha… Ha…