This is perfectly valid PHP.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@jannepekkala @sol_hsa @christianp

How is that any worse than `activeFactoryFactoryBeanAnnotator()` or `sysRqIRQFudge()` or any of the other ridiculous names programmers give things?

[sol_hsa@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jannepekkala @christianp @Edent All it takes is some vibe coder adding "only use emojis as symbols" in the command for lols..

[jannepekkala@mementomori.social]

@Edent @sol_hsa @christianp well, it is same thing times 10. Also, unlike words, each of us understand emojis differently. For me, this means good job , while for surprisingly many it means f**kng moron.

But it is just my opinion and gladly (or sadly) I’m no longer actively coding outside my own projects. But when I was, we had rules how things was named (and it was useFullWordsInCamelCaseToDescribe) and no one spoke about ancient 80 char max line lenghts

But yeah, together with all that Vibing, there is no future for clean code anyhow. At least, finally some practical use case for LLMs

[zimzat@mastodon.social]

Code golfing with constructor property promotion:

https://3v4l.org/MQlNZ#vnull

(Less visual impact via less lines but basically the same)

[fxx_xxf@muenchen.social]

@Edent this should be illegal

[woe2you@beige.party]

@Edent Great for code golf, absolute cancer in working code.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@fxx_xxf BRB, passing a law to make it mandatory.

[dotyk@mastodon.social]

@Edent If we add music notes, we might finally realize that the Pyramids are just giant graphic equalizers, and we’ve spent 200 years treating them as a legacy architectural bug.

But the real question is: was the original score released under a Creative Commons license, or are we about to get a DMCA takedown notice from a Pharaoh?

[denny@boing.world]

@Edent I use a Ruby library called persistent-, which makes flicking through my code that bit sparklier on occasion

[martinrust@infosec.exchange]

@Edent Why use monospaced font for coding? The days of Commodore 64 are long gone …

[edent@mastodon.social]

@dotyk I'd read the hell out of that novel!

[dotyk@mastodon.social]

@Edent So I've come up with a subplot for my next book

[owenblacker@dataare.cool]

@Edent MacOS is "helpfully" inverting the colours of all the emoji in dark mode, which took a moment for my brain to process

[kate@social.treehouse.systems]

@Edent i mean honestly why shouldn't it work ‍️

[grishka@mastodon.social]

@Edent I once accidentally discovered you can use Cyrillic letters in Java, and later did that on purpose a couple times

[stuartyeates@cloudisland.nz]

@Edent @fxx_xxf

It already is, but only when the US stock markets are open.

[kajord@hachyderm.io]

@Edent for more fun you can use variable names like "Α" (U+0391, Greek Capital Letter Alpha) that look exactly like ASCII characters in most fonts but are not.

[dt@mastodon.top]

@Edent less spectacularly, it also means you can name variables with any non-english accented characters.

[pele@toki.social]

@sol_hsa
Some people already communicate with hieroglyphs.

[mroach@ublog.mroach.com]

@sborrill @Edent That’s got me thinking about a git hook to intentionally mangle and demangle code…