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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 month ago by ElCanut@jlai.lu to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

why settle for \n when you can go for the stylish carriage return

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

¿Porqué no los dos? A nice \r\n, Windows style.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 8 points 1 month ago

Gotta band it Windows tho, it just feels right, I want to enjoy my fake typewriter

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

so John\r Doe ? depending on the software, when it gets printed, the carriage return will move the cursor to the start of the line without moving a line down, becoming \x20Doe.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

This is the ideal rendition, I would say. On a related note, I just love it when there are backspaces in my filenames