this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
719 points (98.5% liked)
Programmer Humor
19817 readers
1177 users here now
Welcome to Programmer Humor!
This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!
For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.
Rules
- Keep content in english
- No advertisements
- Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Why not just ifnot? Same count of characters but an o instead of a possibly problematic single quote.
I think it's just capitalizing on a trend to add n't to otherwise noy contractions, to make them into contractions. Contractionn'ts, if you will
Yes... how is "reducing exclamation marks" a good thing when you do it by adding a
'(not to be confused with,´,‘or’` ..which are all different characters).Does this rely on the assumption that everyone uses a US QWERTY keyboard where
!happens to be slightly more inconvenient than typing'?If someone really wanted to add it, probably the best would be to use
unlessI really liked having
unlessin Ruby; a!can be easy to miss, whileunlessmade it clear without needing to write out!= true.It's also cool when you do unless(!condition). I particularly like this.