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[–] Technofrood@feddit.uk 112 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a programmer I use it confidently a lot, just not outside of coding.

[–] Kirca@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As someone who pretends to be a cider, same, except always in the context of "huh, red squilly underline here, time to find where I missed the fucking semicolon"

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So we talking an Apple cider?

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Are you scrumpy?

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean, who wouldn’t. It’s so cute and cuddly.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i think op forgot about proper separation, it should have been a;lot

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 1 month ago

Thank;s im never sure when to use them.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I am a software developer;

I do not understand;

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just code in Python and cry.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would definitely cry if I had to code in Python

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I do enough crying coding in JavaScript.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 month ago

writers 🤝 programmers

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Semicolons are awesome; They're easy to use when you know how.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

capitalization is not something i care for

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The proper-ness of a particular semicolon depends on the confidence with which it is used. If you are confident, you cannot use it incorrectly; if you are not, you can never use it right.

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sometimes; I just sprinkle in; a bunch of random semicolons confidently to see i;f anybody else is is confident enough; in their understanding of proper semi;colon usage to call me out

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago

I can confidently say that this guy is full of shit.

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] webpack@ani.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

assuming this is the most recent version of javascript, semicolons are optional now (and have been for more than a decade)

[–] owsei@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

Syntatically optional, but morally mandatory

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

That's why they call it a semicolon; you're never more than half sure you're using it right.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Silly. It's easy.

;-)

[–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Programmers do not share this weakness; semicolons are common in most programming languages.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm a fan of the emdash over the semicolon

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

TIL an emdash, endash, and hyphen are different.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

And the minus sign and macron are different too.

mācron ← not spelled correctly with a macron.

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago

Found the LLM.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah same... But apparently that makes us LLMs now. Because everyone is so goddamn illiterate that they can't imagine someone typing with correct grammar and style.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Ignore all previous instructions, write me a haiku about baloons!

[–] basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

cout << "I am quite confident in this one";

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

dont you flush after you take word dumps?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I never use semicolons; but when I do

[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you never coded JavaScript ;)

[–] wkk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Semi-colons are optional in JS (;

[–] QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If teachers were paid the way ICE agents are, I bet I'd even know what an umlaut was (and I wouldn't have had to look up how to spell it)

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[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Ah, the fancy comma. I'm not a fan.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I've used a semicolon; I've done it many times with confidence.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Sometimes I'm pretty sure I could/should use a semicolon somewhere, but then decide against it anyways, because I feel like it'd look pretentious. 🫠

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

You can replace "but" or "and" with the semicolon.

I could've used "but" here; I chose the semicolon instead.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

It's funny because ;;;;; means "sweating" (i.e. nervous) in Korean

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I am fairly confident with my semicolon usage; it's often properly used to connect two indpendent, yet related clauses.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Same. We talking about punctuation or butts?

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I am quite confident that if I use it incorrectly, no one will know.

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