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"☹️".reverse() == "🙂" (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Use a dynamically typed language and you won't have to: just override the default reverse() method on strings like a Real Programmer!

Unintended consequences you say? Nonsense! What could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Lua could possibly do this

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m tempted to publish an NPM package to do so as a joke, but I fear that it’d get used seriously

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where does it end though? It's a bit like infinite craft - but instead of combining resources you'd have to find an inverse for every emoji

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

async function reverse(str){
    return ChatGPT.ask(`Please reverse the string ${str}. Reply only with the answer, without other words or symbols.`);
}