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[-] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Why not just ifnot? Same count of characters but an o instead of a possibly problematic single quote.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

I think it's just capitalizing on a trend to add n't to otherwise noy contractions, to make them into contractions. Contractionn'ts, if you will

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes... how is "reducing exclamation marks" a good thing when you do it by adding a ' (not to be confused with , ´,or’` ..which are all different characters).

Does this rely on the assumption that everyone uses a US QWERTY keyboard where ! happens to be slightly more inconvenient than typing '?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

If someone really wanted to add it, probably the best would be to use unless

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I really liked having unless in Ruby; a ! can be easy to miss, while unless made it clear without needing to write out != true.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It's also cool when you do unless(!condition). I particularly like this.

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