<![CDATA[This is perfectly valid PHP.]]>This is perfectly valid PHP.

If your programming language doesn't support emoji, it is going to be left behind.

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Where you can (and can't) use Emoji in PHP

I was noodling around in PHP the other day and discovered that this works: ⧉ PHP

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/1c221a11-1ce3-4295-b515-71bec73eabd1/this-is-perfectly-valid-php.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 06:46:26 GMTMon, 20 Apr 2026 08:23:18 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:53:16 GMT]]>@jannepekkala @christianp @Edent All it takes is some vibe coder adding "only use emojis as symbols" in the command for lols..

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/sol_hsa/statuses/116436185694265547https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/sol_hsa/statuses/116436185694265547Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:53:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:49:07 GMT]]>@jannepekkala @sol_hsa @christianp

How is that any worse than `activeFactoryFactoryBeanAnnotator()` or `sysRqIRQFudge()` or any of the other ridiculous names programmers give things?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/116436169380532117https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/116436169380532117Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:49:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:48:29 GMT]]>@christianp @Edent 2024? https://codepen.io/iamdtms/pen/WNvqPPB

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/iamdtms/statuses/116436166849112590https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/iamdtms/statuses/116436166849112590Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:48:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:42:44 GMT]]>@sol_hsa @christianp @Edent oh god in hell. Why?! 😫 Variable and function naming together with passed time was already ninth level of hell and with this…

Good luck to decode that ”function 🤩🥸 (int 😶‍🌫️, string 🫶) { … return 🥳; }” after few weeks (and hope you never meet it again after a month).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mementomori.social/users/jannepekkala/statuses/116436144276265277https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mementomori.social/users/jannepekkala/statuses/116436144276265277Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:42:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:36:08 GMT]]>@Edent TIL: https://www.emojicode.org/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://martinh.net/users/m/statuses/116436118313598937https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://martinh.net/users/m/statuses/116436118313598937Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:36:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:34:46 GMT]]>@Edent

You miss the opportunity to put emoji in the string, where presumably they're allowed too.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/stuartyeates/statuses/116436112926708172https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/stuartyeates/statuses/116436112926708172Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:34:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:31:15 GMT]]>@christianp yessssss!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/116436099136911694https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/116436099136911694Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:31:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:30:51 GMT]]>@christianp @Edent I swear we'll move to 100% hieroglyphics before too long

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/sol_hsa/statuses/116436097520565941https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/sol_hsa/statuses/116436097520565941Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:30:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:29:13 GMT]]>@Edent New Algol 68 stropping rules incoming…

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tilde.zone/users/mhd/statuses/116436091087340182https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tilde.zone/users/mhd/statuses/116436091087340182Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:29:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:28:27 GMT]]>@Edent I realised recently that emoji are valid CSS class names, which meant I didn't have to make separate class name strings for a chart with elements labelled by emoji. So it definitely is useful!

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/christianp/statuses/116436088073923711https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/christianp/statuses/116436088073923711Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:28:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is perfectly valid PHP. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:26:49 GMT]]>@Edent Using emojis liberally would certainly be a good way to pollute training data for vibe-coding LLMs

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://justfollow.me.uk/users/sborrill/statuses/116436081650852120https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://justfollow.me.uk/users/sborrill/statuses/116436081650852120Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:26:49 GMT