<![CDATA[This is perfectly valid PHP.]]>This is perfectly valid PHP.

If your programming language doesn't support emoji, it is going to be left behind.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/where-you-can-and-cant-use-emoji-in-php/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/c8bfe65d-20bd-4e98-874b-2797af179db5/this-is-perfectly-valid-php.RSS for NodeTue, 28 Apr 2026 01:33:34 GMTMon, 20 Apr 2026 08:23:18 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:33:45 GMT]]>@sborrill @Edent That’s got me thinking about a git hook to intentionally mangle and demangle code…

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ublog.mroach.com/users/mroach/statuses/01KPQBXBCR16YXAEG9KM4FPNEFhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ublog.mroach.com/users/mroach/statuses/01KPQBXBCR16YXAEG9KM4FPNEFTue, 21 Apr 2026 06:33:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:19:26 GMT]]>@sol_hsa
Some people already communicate with hieroglyphs.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toki.social/ap/users/116031907936927572/statuses/116439355625078325https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toki.social/ap/users/116031907936927572/statuses/116439355625078325Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:19:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:14:48 GMT]]>@Edent less spectacularly, it also means you can name variables with any non-english accented characters.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.top/users/dt/statuses/116439101502659878https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.top/users/dt/statuses/116439101502659878Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:14:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:14:39 GMT]]>@Edent for more fun you can use variable names like "Ξ‘" (U+0391, Greek Capital Letter Alpha) that look exactly like ASCII characters in most fonts but are not.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/kajord/statuses/116439100914780275https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/kajord/statuses/116439100914780275Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:14:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:12:48 GMT]]>@Edent @fxx_xxf

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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/stuartyeates/statuses/116439093653581634https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/stuartyeates/statuses/116439093653581634Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:12:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:10:26 GMT]]>@Edent I once accidentally discovered you can use Cyrillic letters in Java, and later did that on purpose a couple times πŸ˜„

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grishka/statuses/116439084360817980https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grishka/statuses/116439084360817980Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:10:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:05:40 GMT]]>@Edent i mean honestly why shouldn't it work πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/kate/statuses/116439065575874961https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/kate/statuses/116439065575874961Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:05:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:18:33 GMT]]>@Edent MacOS is "helpfully" inverting the colours of all the emoji in dark mode, which took a moment for my brain to process πŸ˜…

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dataare.cool/users/owenblacker/statuses/116437936612766110https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dataare.cool/users/owenblacker/statuses/116437936612766110Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:18:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:58:47 GMT]]>@Edent So I've come up with a subplot for my next book

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dotyk/statuses/116437387040427430https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dotyk/statuses/116437387040427430Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:58:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:58:25 GMT]]>@dotyk I'd read the hell out of that novel!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/116436913693130023https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/116436913693130023Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:58:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:37:00 GMT]]>@Edent Why use monospaced font for coding? The days of Commodore 64 are long gone …

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/martinrust/statuses/116436829481226283https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/martinrust/statuses/116436829481226283Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:37:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:25:42 GMT]]>@Edent I use a Ruby library called persistent-πŸ’Ž, which makes flicking through my code that bit sparklier on occasion πŸ˜†

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://boing.world/users/denny/statuses/116436549162277903https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://boing.world/users/denny/statuses/116436549162277903Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:25:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:09:53 GMT]]>@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?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dotyk/statuses/116436486941833949https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dotyk/statuses/116436486941833949Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:09:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:08:44 GMT]]>@fxx_xxf BRB, passing a law to make it mandatory.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/116436482418264539https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/116436482418264539Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:08:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:06:58 GMT]]>@Edent Great for code golf, absolute cancer in working code.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116436475493499813https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116436475493499813Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:06:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:52:25 GMT]]>@Edent this should be illegal

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://muenchen.social/users/fxx_xxf/statuses/116436418271991872https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://muenchen.social/users/fxx_xxf/statuses/116436418271991872Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:52:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:38:05 GMT]]>Code golfing with constructor property promotion:

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

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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/zimzat/statuses/116436361892439950https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/zimzat/statuses/116436361892439950Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:38:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:00:51 GMT]]>@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 πŸ‘, 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 πŸ˜’

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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mementomori.social/users/jannepekkala/statuses/116436215506233675https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mementomori.social/users/jannepekkala/statuses/116436215506233675Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:00:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:53:16 GMT]]>@jannepekkala @christianp @Edent All it takes is some vibe coder adding "only use emojis as symbols" in the command for lols..

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/sol_hsa/statuses/116436185694265547https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/sol_hsa/statuses/116436185694265547Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:53:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:49:07 GMT]]>@jannepekkala @sol_hsa @christianp

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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/116436169380532117https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/116436169380532117Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:49:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:48:29 GMT]]>@christianp @Edent 2024? https://codepen.io/iamdtms/pen/WNvqPPB

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/iamdtms/statuses/116436166849112590https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/iamdtms/statuses/116436166849112590Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:48:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:42:44 GMT]]>@sol_hsa @christianp @Edent oh god in hell. Why?! 😫 Variable and function naming together with passed time was already ninth level of hell and with this…

Good luck to decode that ”function 🀩πŸ₯Έ (int πŸ˜Άβ€πŸŒ«οΈ, string 🫢) { … return πŸ₯³; }” after few weeks (and hope you never meet it again after a month).

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mementomori.social/users/jannepekkala/statuses/116436144276265277https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mementomori.social/users/jannepekkala/statuses/116436144276265277Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:42:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:36:08 GMT]]>@Edent TIL: https://www.emojicode.org/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://martinh.net/users/m/statuses/116436118313598937https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://martinh.net/users/m/statuses/116436118313598937Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:36:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:34:46 GMT]]>@Edent

You miss the opportunity to put emoji in the string, where presumably they're allowed too.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/stuartyeates/statuses/116436112926708172https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/stuartyeates/statuses/116436112926708172Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:34:46 GMT