• @[email protected]
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      10 months ago

      What that garble of symbols does, is that it defines and calls a function named :, which calls itself twice.

      The syntax for defining a function is different in Fish, so no, this particular garble will not work:

      But it is, of course, possible to write a (much more readable) version that will work in Fish.

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          Yeah, I meant, as an attacker, you couldn’t come up with a similarly unreadable version.

          At least, as far as I can tell, defining a function requires spelling out function and seems to require being defined on multiple lines, too.

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        410 months ago

        But it is, of course, possible to write a (much more readable) version that will work in Fish.

        the gentleman hacker

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          It hails back to the early days of the ampersand, from when it was basically still just Latin “et”: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trebuchet_MS_ampersand.svg

          Personally, I do like this font (Fira Mono+Sans), because it still looks professional, without being so boring that I get depression from looking at it.
          But yeah, that ampersand is pushing it a bit, as I’m not sure everyone else knows that’s an ampersand…

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        Doesn’t work in nushell, function syntax is different.

        Probably still possible, just written differently.