@CubicleApril @ticianobenetti I also remember learning about octal notation for C constants the hard way after I added leading zeroes in my code to make a column of numbers line up prettily, at which point the compiler told me that the number 09 didn’t exist and baffled me for an hour 😂
@CubicleApril @ticianobenetti Easily done, especially with a weird one like vertical tab. I have some of them burned into my brain from growing up programming in the eighties, but only a handful.
@ticianobenetti @CubicleApril 13 (0x0d) = line feed. 10 (0x0a) = carriage return. 11 (0x0b) = vertical tab. Guessing the original was confusing octal and hex? But yes, vertical tab, whole different character, still works here and there. Like 0x07, BEL, will still get you a beep in places…
janemerrick23 When a lettuce outlasts a Prime Minister, we have truly reached the endive days
@ememess Hey, they told me that was *my* turn! Are you sure you’re not down for Chancellor?
bencsmoke flatmate has just asked me whether i think the lettuce voted leaf or romaine in the brexit referendum and im frankly furious at how funny i found it
@ctkat1 @LtlMissFeminist @ed___wins @jestom I can’t quite believe how happy I was made by this clarification.
mrJamesGraham A Prime Minister may fall today. Soak up the history, guys. Days like today only come around every couple of months