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xkcd #2954: Bracket Symbols (xkcd.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The python function is some sort of brainfuck?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's a list with a tuple, with a list with an empty dictionary. I'm not sure the innermost parenthesis is legal there.

Edit: Well, I tested it. It's legal. {()} is just a set with an empty tuple instead of a dictionary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This sounds like something I would do with all of 40 hours or so of Python-esque programming under my belt. I feel like there has to be a better way, but it worked. I'm worried this might be the best way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ouch. If you ever catches yourself writing something like this, stop. Intermediate values deserve names too. Even Haskell developers wouldn't go into such extreme namelessness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

People reading decompiled inlined code: "wait this isn't normal?"