Yes… how is “reducing exclamation marks” a good thing when you do it by adding a ' (not to be confused with , ´,‘or’` …which are all different characters).
Does this rely on the assumption that everyone uses a US QWERTY keyboard where ! happens to be slightly more inconvenient than typing '?
Why not just ifnot? Same count of characters but an o instead of a possibly problematic single quote.
I think it’s just capitalizing on a trend to add n’t to otherwise noy contractions, to make them into contractions. Contractionn’ts, if you will
If someone really wanted to add it, probably the best would be to use
unlessI really liked having
unlessin Ruby; a!can be easy to miss, whileunlessmade it clear without needing to write out!= true.It’s also cool when you do unless(!condition). I particularly like this.
Yes… how is “reducing exclamation marks” a good thing when you do it by adding a
'(not to be confused with,´,‘or’` …which are all different characters).Does this rely on the assumption that everyone uses a US QWERTY keyboard where
!happens to be slightly more inconvenient than typing'?