The Bridge

badp

2:00 PM

@Nzall INBEEFOUR

Kevin van der Velden

@badp did my line count as inb4ing your inb4?

badp

@KevinvanderVelden that's like half an inb4? inb2?

I'll take it

is that inbetween?

such optional

2:02 PM

good old Maybe monad

Kevin van der Velden

Also C#, though .bounce is invalid

Private Pansy

@KevinvanderVelden In most places you can drop the name of a Swift enum when specifying its value because the enum is type inferred

I think that's quite neat

Avery

@Avery It doesn't just deny it. It freezes the gate for a few seconds, so even if you get out the card properly it doesn't read it and people start to line up on your back, ughh.

Private Pansy

It amuses me more than it should that this is a perfectly valid way of calling an optional closure

This has a completely different meaning in Ruby

badp

is that a list comprehension?

return the result of completion() if it does exist?

Private Pansy

2:06 PM

Call completion if it is not nil, do nothing otherwise

Avery

oh btw, I was in kizilay. There were polices with SMGs in metro and tons of police cars around the whole square. It was scary, tbh.

Private Pansy

The first completion is a parameter label and has nothing to do with the second one

Swift syntax is weird, but I actually really like it

Tim Stone

CPAC panel: Is John 3:16 'extreme vetting'? https://t.co/3wK8uycdTy

Tweeted by timkmak on February 21, 2017 at 2:01 PM

Like, I want to believe it's a joke, but I'm not sure

Private Pansy

The underscore indicates that this is a closure that accepts one parameter which we're discarding

Tim Stone

@PrivatePansy It's so beautiful

MBraedley

2:09 PM

@TimStone I'd look up that passage, but I'm at work, and I feel that isn't exactly appropriate.

badp

@PrivatePansy oh I thought it was the opposite. [_ for _ in completion? completion() : ()]

Tim Stone

Meanwhile over here in Java land I think I'll die before multiline strings become a thing |:

badp

@TimStone what's the syntax going to be

Private Pansy

@badp Can't be worse than PHP Heredoc

badp

I don't know if there's a good one

Tim Stone

2:12 PM

@MBraedley Yeah, pretty sure it isn't

badp

@PrivatePansy heredocs kinda are the least worst in a way

Private Pansy

@badp Ehhhhhhhhh...

Tim Stone

@badp I'm okay with C#'s @" " but I guess that's a minor conflict with annotations

Private Pansy

I mean, JS has backticks, and Python has triple quotation marks

Arperum

slowly stops screaming

badp

2:13 PM

with Python """s the first line looks indented but it shouldn't be

also you can have multiple heredocs per line!!

Private Pansy

@badp That is a problem, true

Arperum

12 minutes past official start of use the SSL/TLS certificate works correctly.

Private Pansy

@badp No. Just... no.

badp

@PrivatePansy though docstrings kinda turn that around into a feature

Arperum

Also the site seems to be functioning.

Tim Stone

2:14 PM

@PrivatePansy Yeah, although backticks also introduce interpolation, but I guess that's not horrible either

badp

@PrivatePansy and if I call my heredoc "SQL", ST3 knows to use SQL syntax highlighting for my heredoc!!

Private Pansy

Although Pycharm supports automatically breaking strings when you hit return inside a string

Tim Stone

@Arperum woo!

Private Pansy

@badp I think ST3 should highlight that entire entire heredoc in bright red and make it blink if it thinks you're trying to write raw SQL into a tring

Tim Stone

I did find out though that IntelliJ's embedded language feature lets me edit multi-line SQL strings directly, which is pretty great

badp

2:16 PM

@PrivatePansy so long as you use placeholders and no interpolation it isn't too bad.

Arperum

@TimStone ANd my college is not having a mental breakdown, so I assume it did not take the other services down.

badp

@TimStone I'm currently working on Mason, which is like PHP but with Perl instead

it's sadness

but ST3 knows enough to do syntax highlighting for CSS Javascript HTML Perl and SQL separately

that's really impressive

(including knowing about "style" "onclick" etc.)

Private Pansy

@badp something something bright red and blinking

Tim Stone

@badp D:

badp

@PrivatePansy hey the text editor supports the features.

maybe you shouldn't use them

but.

Tim Stone

2:18 PM

Think of how many people could have been spared the indignity of using Hibernate if only writing SQL in Java wasn't so gross

badp

%   for my $thing (@things){
%     my $selected = $selected_thing eq $thing? "selected": "";
          <option value="<%$thing->id %>" <% $selected %>><% $thing->tagname %></option>
%   }

Private Pansy

Wow, I thought you're joking about the PHP with Perl thing

badp

lolno.

Private Pansy

Does <% %> do escaping at least?

badp

we made it do escaping.

blood was shed.

Private Pansy

2:21 PM

Okay, that's not too bad

The problem with PHP in some cases isn't so much that it's bad, but that it's deceptively simple. Variable interpolation and escaping is one such area.