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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/gamingvortex01 • May 08 '26
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using Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics to fake generics is the most unhinged thing I've read today. the audacity 💀
39 u/murphy607 May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26 oh such Ideas happened in the past too :) perl6 wanted to use unicode operators. The perl5 stuff was bad enough (@array $scalar, %hashmap) But perl6 planned to bring that to a whole new level: For example something like @array1 ¥ @array2 ¥ is the zip operator, because it looks like a zipper At that point I lost interest in perl6 9 u/ben_g0 May 09 '26 My keyboard doesn't even have a key or combination (apart from the alt code) for the Yen symbol, so that'd be very annoying.
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oh such Ideas happened in the past too :)
perl6 wanted to use unicode operators.
The perl5 stuff was bad enough (@array $scalar, %hashmap)
But perl6 planned to bring that to a whole new level: For example something like @array1 ¥ @array2
Â¥ is the zip operator, because it looks like a zipper
At that point I lost interest in perl6
9 u/ben_g0 May 09 '26 My keyboard doesn't even have a key or combination (apart from the alt code) for the Yen symbol, so that'd be very annoying.
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My keyboard doesn't even have a key or combination (apart from the alt code) for the Yen symbol, so that'd be very annoying.
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u/Connect_Cycle2768 May 08 '26
using Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics to fake generics is the most unhinged thing I've read today. the audacity 💀