• hydroptic@sopuli.xyzOP
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    4 months ago

    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?

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

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        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

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