• SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Imagine, if you will. A world where string reverse changes the character codes of the string.

    What beauty, what wonder would such a world have?

    Destruction and despair. Developers unsure why their programs don’t respond correctly. Ships run aground on islands already overcrowded with those who were shipwrecked before. Signal antennas pointed towards the sun with it’s constant noise. Spacecraft whose exhaust melt to slag populated cities as people briefly scream their final terrors of pain and suffering.

    This, is a world we should not want to live in. A world you can only find, in the Twilight Zone.

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      4 months ago

      Nah, this could’ve been possible with some clever fuckery in defining those emojis’ unicode content, like with flags that are not a single point but three independent ones, allowing you to do this:

      "🇧🇬".reverse() == "🇬🇧"
      "🇬🇪".reverse() == "🇪🇬"