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[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Why not just ifnot? Same count of characters but an o instead of a possibly problematic single quote.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Ferk@kbin.social 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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 '?

[–] KmlSlmk64@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If someone really wanted to add it, probably the best would be to use unless

[–] JoshuaEN@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I really liked having unless in Ruby; a ! can be easy to miss, while unless made it clear without needing to write out != true.

[–] HexAndSquare@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It's also cool when you do unless(!condition). I particularly like this.