A difficult part of writing for me is when a single sentence–especially dialogue–contains two tones. It sounds best as a single sentence, but ending with a period, or alternative punctuation, looks wrong. As well as this, using two sentences also looks wrong.
I can’t think of a great example right now, but I know I’ve wanted punctuation that doesn’t exist before. I’ve had moments where it would have been so useful to have a “;!” and a “;?” mark.
I suggest using a ternary operator. At least 10% of Lemmy users will understand this syntax.
Please, I’m confused enough about what people younger than 30 are trying to say.
noooo pls don’t DRY tun-state-desiccate language with terse-nary cleverness
Probably in programming communities ? people will understand : people won’t understand
Elvis operator better
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