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The absurdity that an upper 8-bit ascii range character would be an elementary control character in a terminal. The absurdity that a number less than 32 would
by unconed 4y ago
The absurdity that an upper 8-bit ascii range character would be an elementary control character in a terminal.
The absurdity that a number less than 32 would start with b in hex instead of 1.
The absurdity of making this mistake consistently in a post about diligently fixing bugs and not proofreading or checking it.
How does one not notice this?
- ilyt 4y agoWeirdly enough it is flipped in actual pull request text too but not in pull request's code > How does one not notice this? coz people skip funny magic numbers when reading
- unconed 4y ago[flagged]
- coldtea 4y ago>How does one not notice this? Trivially easily?
- kps 4y ago> The absurdity that an upper 8-bit ascii range character would be an elementary control character in a terminal. Wait 'til you hear about the C1 control set (§5.3 in the current version of ECMA-48). > Gen z programmers, not even once. I know I shouldn't even reply to this, but I'm old enough that I have used physical 8-bit ASCII terminals with C1 controls (and ISO 2022 page switching).