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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think they exclude some unicode characters from being use in identifiers. At least last I tried it wouldn't allow me to use an emoji as a variable name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Another guy just posted emojis in their code in the comments no idea if it actually works

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That code was C++ or something like that. Not GDScript.

I tested this on Godot 4.2.1. You can write identifiers using a different writing system other than latin and you are allowed to have emojis in strings, but you aren't allowed to use emojis in identifiers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah I’m unfamiliar with most languages I just use python and random others for personal projects

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Coding must be a nightmare if you’re choosing programming languages at random 😱

But you must also be learning quite a lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I’m not choosing at random lol that would be crazy but I mostly use python and have been teaching myself go and some rust

[–] lunarul 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's probably a rule that requires variables to start with a letter or underscore. Emoji are nor marked as letters. Something like _👍 will probably work.