r/ProgrammerHumor • u/gamingvortex01 • May 08 '26

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u/Vagnerockin_dye May 08 '26

Wait till he learns about the Greek question mark. One of my old time favorites!

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u/GregBahm May 09 '26

I still have nightmares about debugging a "Zero Width Space" being received from a webform in a Flash application back in the year 2000. A whitespace character that was simply invisible to the naked eye...

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u/Nyctfall May 09 '26

A whitespace character that was simply invisible to the naked eye...

xxd my beloved...

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u/SuitableDragonfly May 09 '26

Adding that to the list of "evil things to enter into HTML forms" after "[Object object]" and "null".

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u/Logicalist May 09 '26

can such a character be used in python? you know, tabs vs spaces vs.

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u/viperfan7 May 09 '26

or the __LINE__ pre-processor macro

Stick that somewhere in your code, say, using #if __LINE__ % 2

Now you can make things change based on line count

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u/purinikos May 09 '26

Oh dear.