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by unconed 1250 days ago
The absurdity that an upper 8-bit ascii range character would be an elementary control character in a terminal.

The absurdity that a number less than 32 would start with b in hex instead of 1.

The absurdity of making this mistake consistently in a post about diligently fixing bugs and not proofreading or checking it.

How does one not notice this?

3 comments

> The absurdity that an upper 8-bit ascii range character would be an elementary control character in a terminal.

Wait 'til you hear about the C1 control set (ยง5.3 in the current version of ECMA-48).

> Gen z programmers, not even once.

I know I shouldn't even reply to this, but I'm old enough that I have used physical 8-bit ASCII terminals with C1 controls (and ISO 2022 page switching).

Weirdly enough it is flipped in actual pull request text too but not in pull request's code

> How does one not notice this?

coz people skip funny magic numbers when reading

>How does one not notice this?

Trivially easily?