This is perfectly valid PHP.

[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…