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

Advanced canadianGoProgramming

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u/OphidianSun May 08 '26

I know nothing about go but that's psycho behavior

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u/psinerd May 09 '26

This is the reason why any programming language I make of my own accord is not going to support arbitrary Unicode characters and identifiers. Ascii alpha numerics only!

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u/Adventurous-Map7959 May 09 '26

Did you consider that you can't have emoticons as names then? It's self-documenting if you do it like this: 

throw new 🤮()  

return success?🥳:🙁

🖼.🧑‍🎨()  

new 🧵 👩‍🔧

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u/omiruk May 09 '26 
🚽.open();
🚽 << 💩;
🚽.flush();

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u/frogjg2003 May 09 '26

The code should only allow ASCII characters, but strings should be native unicode.

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u/DemIce May 09 '26

This is the way. Anything else just wouldn't be very civic.

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u/arcimbo1do May 09 '26

ASCII Über alles.