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Favorite Punctuation?

Submitted by phil on January 21, 2008 - 4:12pm.
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aw man...

Submitted by phil on January 21, 2008 - 4:14pm.

the last option was far more hilarious in unicode...

stupid drupal text sanitizing... ;-)

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seriously, though

Submitted by phil on January 29, 2008 - 7:09pm.

Now this is a cowboy:

∈)8-]

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My analysis

Submitted by veridicus on January 21, 2008 - 11:02pm.

@ - Makes me think of email. Bad.
? - Too many stupid questions.
. - It's the end. Nothing exciting, nothing interesting. Just... the... end.
& - Too lazy to type "and"?
/ - Half of /., so not a bad choice.
$ - No complaints.
{} - Free-form programming. Love the fact I get paid to type it.
<> - Makes me think of HTML. Bad.
[] - Reminds me of python lists. Nice.

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Bah, they're all good...

Submitted by phil on January 24, 2008 - 8:38am.

@ - Perl arrays
? - Perl ternary operator
. - Perl concatenation
& - Perl subroutine calls
/ - Perl match quotes
$ - Perl scalars
{} - Perl blocks
<> - Perl filehandle input
[] - Perl subscripts

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
– Larry Wall

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Interrobang

Submitted by Fez on January 22, 2008 - 7:27pm.

How can you leave off the interrobang‽

I guess it doesn't show up very well in this font, but it's still my favorite.

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is that unicode?

Submitted by phil on January 24, 2008 - 8:32am.

when i tried to use various unicode characters, drupal kept replacing them with '?'....which is a sigil that is not getting much love right now...

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HTML Entity

Submitted by Fez on January 24, 2008 - 9:47am.

It's just a standard HTML entity:

& #8253; (with no space between) -> ‽

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PHP

Submitted by veridicus on January 24, 2008 - 10:35am.

I'm pretty sure the issue is PHP's lack of true support for unicode. When you cram unicode into a PHP string you have to be very careful of every function that works on that string. It's not drupal's fault that you were too lazy to look up each HTML entity. ;)

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Stand by your &

Submitted by ancientt on March 16, 2008 - 7:50pm.

Plenty of good reasons for other choices, but for me, I still get a warm feeling when I realize that the computer can do work for me. When I put the & at the end of a command, that is the moment when I transcend from working on a computer to being a computer user. Background processing rocks.

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