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"☹️".reverse() == "🙂" (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by hydroptic@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] sus@programming.dev 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

but sometimes "👍🏽".reverse() == "🏽👍"

[–] i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"🙂".reverse() == "🙃"

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

Then we need reverseX and reverseY

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 12 points 1 month ago

"🇮🇪".reverse() = "🇨🇮"

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

Yet we live in a world where

"🇧🇬".reverse() == "🇬🇧" and "🇬🇪".reverse() == "🇪🇬"

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"A".reverse() === "A"

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

"A".reverse() == "∀"

Where is your god now?!

[–] MrLLM@ani.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

File "", line 1
    "👉".reverse() = "👈"
    ^
SyntaxError: cannot assign to function call

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is a font that changes == to one long equals sign.

[–] MrLLM@ani.social 4 points 1 month ago

Oh my bad, that idea didn’t cross my mind.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'reverse'

[–] Brahvim@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's with the lines of both equals symbols being combined together haha?

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's known as a ligature and they're pretty common in many programming-oriented fonts, which usually have stylistic sets with different ligatures for different programming languages that you can optionally enable in your editor's configuration. For example, here's the stylistic sets the Monaspace font offers:

Personally I'm not too fond of ligatures so I never enable any, but many folks do like them.

Edit: and just as a side note, ligatures are super common in many fonts, you just might not notice them. Here's some classic examples from the DejaVu Serif font, with and without a ligature: