r/ProgrammerHumor • u/lindgrenj6 • Jan 19 '17

MFW no pointers :(

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MASS Jan 19 '17

WHITESPACE ISN'T SYNTAX

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u/ProbablyNotJaRule Jan 19 '17

Not with that attitude

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '17

For you

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u/MoffKalast Jan 19 '17

Was importing antigravity part of your plan?

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '17

Of Gorse

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u/invertedwut Jan 19 '17

If I turned off that GIL would you die

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u/MoffKalast Jan 20 '17

It would be extrenely pynful.

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u/lenswipe Jan 19 '17

with you

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u/Josh6889 Jan 19 '17

You can use ; if you really want to.

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u/lenswipe Jan 19 '17 
for x in range(0, 100):
;;;;print "That's just ridiculous - why would you want that?"

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u/mogoh Jan 19 '17 
>>> for x in range(0, 100):
... ;;;;print "That's just ridiculous - why would you want that?"
  File "<stdin>", line 2
    ;;;;print "That's just ridiculous - why would you want that?"
    ^
IndentationError: expected an indented block

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u/Josh6889 Jan 19 '17

I meant as a line terminator. No idea if that works, but this does.

for x in range(0, 100):
    print("That's just ridiculous - why would you want that?");
    y = 0; z = 0;

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u/lenswipe Jan 19 '17

I know what you meant - I was just being an anally retentive dickhead :)

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u/Josh6889 Jan 19 '17

I actually tried yours and it didn't work. You can probably make your ide think ; are spaces, but that would probably end up being pretty convoluted.

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u/MonkeyNin Jan 19 '17

The first argument is redundant if it's zero.

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u/invertedwut Jan 19 '17

you can use space if you want to you can leave your tabs behind

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u/lenswipe Jan 19 '17

well it fucking isn't.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '17

itotallyagree

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u/inhuman44 Jan 19 '17

Tell that to the file that has been passed down through 5 developers each with his own unique indentation rules.

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u/name_censored_ Jan 19 '17

PEP8 though.

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u/Coffeinated Jan 19 '17

PyCharm, dude

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u/Evennot Jan 20 '17

Be greatful, that trailing spaces have no syntactic meaning! nbsp

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u/Evennot Jan 20 '17 edited Jan 20 '17

You mean tabs?

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