Conversation

Notices

1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:29:54 UTC mcc

   IT HAS BEEN

   [0]

   DAYS SINCE A PROGRAM FAILED TO COMPILE BECAUSE PASTED SAMPLE CODE HAD BEEN PASSED THROUGH A SYSTEM THAT TRANSFORMED QUOTES TO SMART QUOTES

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 likes this.
   • Jernej Simončič � (jernej__s@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:29:50 UTC Jernej Simončič �

     in reply to

     • jell

     @joshuaelliott @mcc But they're smart!

     Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 likes this.
   • jell (joshuaelliott@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:29:53 UTC jell

     in reply to

     @mcc A damn menace, always and everywhere. And they aren't even that pretty.

   • Negative12DollarBill (negative12dollarbill@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:29:58 UTC Negative12DollarBill

     in reply to

     @mcc
     Oh god, been there.

     See also: two dashes in command line args being transformed into em-dashes. In a monospaced font where you can't tell.

     Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 likes this.
   • bswolf (bswolf@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:30:04 UTC bswolf

     in reply to

     @mcc Someday we'll solve this problem once and for all by designing a language that accepts smart quotes!

     /s

     Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 likes this.
   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:30:06 UTC mcc

     in reply to

     • bswolf

     @bswolf I actually designed this and had a working prototype but it never shipped :(

     Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 likes this.
   • Spiky Caterpillar (spikycaterpillar@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:30:13 UTC Spiky Caterpillar

     in reply to

     @mcc Proposal: add support for smart quotes to GCC.

     To “avoid” adding complexity, have interpreting them determined by whether --trigraphs is on.

     Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 likes this.
   • Will Thompson (wjt@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:30:18 UTC Will Thompson

     in reply to

     • Eric Engestrom 💙

     @1ace @mcc they look better in prose than plain quotes, and it is very difficult for a normal human who has not studied the X compose tables to type “ ” ‘ ’ ?

     Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 likes this.
   • Eric Engestrom 💙 (1ace@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:30:23 UTC Eric Engestrom 💙

     in reply to

     @mcc I never understood these char replacements; they cause problems everywhere, and… that's it? Or is there some upside somewhere?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:30:24 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     in reply to

     • Dr. Brandon Wiley

     @brandon Haven't we learned that Postel's law makes things worse except in very particular circumstances?

     @mcc

   • Dr. Brandon Wiley (brandon@mastodon.blanu.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:30:28 UTC Dr. Brandon Wiley

     in reply to

     @mcc Can't we just special case smart quotes in the parsers already? It's 2023, not everything is ASCII anymore. At the very least, the IDEs could fix it for you, just like the word processors break it.