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Is closing brackets with a smiley face (like this :) a thing now? I've seen it a few times recently. I don't like it. http://xkcd.com/859/ http://xkcd.com/859/
by GotAnyMegadeth 14y ago
Is closing brackets with a smiley face (like this :) a thing now? I've seen it a few times recently. I don't like it. http://xkcd.com/859/ http://xkcd.com/859/
- tzaman 14y agoI have absolutely no idea, just came naturally when writing the post
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoLol (The alternative isn't much better :))
- finnw 14y agoIt's not new. I first saw it on usenet in the mid 90s.
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoSee also: https://xkcd.com/541/ https://xkcd.com/541/
- tzaman 14y agoOkay, removed the smiley
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoActually, I didn't have a problem with the smiley. I was just suggesting that the question of how to close a parenthesis with a smiley is not solved ((yet :))|(yet :)).
- rys 14y agoI think you need to clear any cache of the page since I'm still seeing it.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoSolution: use a different type of bracket (sort of like this :])
- timjahn 14y agoAmen. Pet peeve of mine as well.
- pc86 14y agoI feel like it's the copy equivalent of that old story about the new "developer" deleting a bunch of braces at the end of the file because he didn't like the way they looked.