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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 18:17:52 JST mcc

   IT HAS BEEN

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

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     jell (joshuaelliott@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:30:09 JST jell

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

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     Jernej Simončič � (jernej__s@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:30:09 JST Jernej Simončič �

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     • jell

     @joshuaelliott @mcc But they're smart!

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     Negative12DollarBill (negative12dollarbill@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:30:11 JST Negative12DollarBill

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     @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.

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     bswolf (bswolf@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:30:13 JST bswolf

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

     /s

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:30:15 JST mcc

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     • bswolf

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

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     Spiky Caterpillar (spikycaterpillar@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:30:29 JST Spiky Caterpillar

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

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

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     Will T (wjt@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:30:31 JST Will T

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     • 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 “ ” ‘ ’ ?

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     Eric Engestrom 💙 (1ace@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:30:32 JST Eric Engestrom 💙

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

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:30:35 JST clacke

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     • Dr. Brandon Wiley

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

     @mcc

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     Dr. Brandon Wiley (brandon@mastodon.blanu.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:30:41 JST Dr. Brandon Wiley

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     @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.