• @[email protected]
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    6 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      I think it’s just capitalizing on a trend to add n’t to otherwise noy contractions, to make them into contractions. Contractionn’ts, if you will

    • Ferk
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      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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      136 months ago

      If someone really wanted to add it, probably the best would be to use unless

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        86 months ago

        I really liked having unless in Ruby; a ! can be easy to miss, while unless made it clear without needing to write out != true.