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submitted 10 months ago by JPDev@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Why not just ifnot? Same count of characters but an o instead of a possibly problematic single quote.

[–] Ferk@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes... how is "reducing exclamation marks" a good thing when you do it by adding a ' (not to be confused with , ´,‘or’` ..which are all different characters).

Does this rely on the assumption that everyone uses a US QWERTY keyboard where ! happens to be slightly more inconvenient than typing '?

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