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but sometimes โ€œ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝโ€.reverse() == โ€œ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘โ€

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Imagine, if you will. A world where string reverse changes the character codes of the string.

What beauty, what wonder would such a world have?

Destruction and despair. Developers unsure why their programs donโ€™t respond correctly. Ships run aground on islands already overcrowded with those who were shipwrecked before. Signal antennas pointed towards the sun with itโ€™s constant noise. Spacecraft whose exhaust melt to slag populated cities as people briefly scream their final terrors of pain and suffering.

This, is a world we should not want to live in. A world you can only find, in the Twilight Zone.

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Nah, this couldโ€™ve been possible with some clever fuckery in defining those emojisโ€™ unicode content, like with flags that are not a single point but three independent ones, allowing you to do this:

"๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ".reverse() == "๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง"
"๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช".reverse() == "๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ"
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THANKS. I didnโ€™t get the flag joke at first @sukhmel@programming.dev

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41 points

โ€œ๐Ÿ™‚โ€.reverse() == โ€œ๐Ÿ™ƒโ€

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10 points

Then we need reverseX and reverseY

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9 points

๐Ÿ™‚.reverseX = ๐Ÿ™‚

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โ€œ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ชโ€.reverse() = โ€œ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€

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Has someone made a library for that?

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Use a dynamically typed language and you wonโ€™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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Iโ€™m tempted to publish an NPM package to do so as a joke, but I fear that itโ€™d get used seriously

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7 points

Where does it end though? Itโ€™s a bit like infinite craft - but instead of combining resources youโ€™d have to find an inverse for every emoji

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Lua could possibly do this

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