alt Hacker Newsunrelated but I've never understood how to put a smiley at the end of parenthetical sentences (which comes up surprisingly often for me since I use smileys a lot and also like using parentheses). Just the smiley as an end parentheses (like this :) feels off but adding another parentheses (like this :) ) makes it look like it should be nested which causes problems since I also tend to nest parenthetical sentences (like (this)).
Yes I enjoy lisp, how could you tell
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Your comment made me realise that there's logic to this (like this :), since in HTML we can:
<li> do this
<li> and this
and <img alt='this'> instead of <img ... />
You might like Lisp, but what you're saying reminds me of the late 00s/early 2010s xHTML2 vs. HTML5 debate :)
Post C++11 you can just do (like this:)), no extra space needed before the last parenthesis.
I tend to rephrase myself so I dont end a statement inside a parenthesis with a smiley.
It's one of those things I think are worth putting some extra effort into, I'm glad to see at least one other person giving it some thought. Thx <3
Use dashes and the problem goes away! Well, you gain the LLM witch-hunt, but heh, no free lunch.
I have the same problem. I just ditch the smiley face. :)
The relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/541
The answer is obviously to balance your smiley faces and wrap the entire statement in the smiley face sentiment. ((: Like this :))