The future is here, and it's MONKEYS!

[sps]

Unicode 6.0.

U+1F648 Unicode character SEE-NO-EVIL MONKEY! 🙈🙈🙈🙈

I kid you not.

Some day soon it will appear here! 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

Comments

[hendrikboom]

Do you happen to know if they are letters? Can we use them as variable names in Scheme?

-- hendrik

[sps]

Oh, now this is tricky. In my own language designs, do I want see-no-evil monkey to be a letter or an operator? Do we want dyadic see-no-evil monkey? I'm thinking that the monkeys are verbs but the cats are nouns.

Hm, are any of the emoji brackets? Quotation marks?

Or perhaps hear no evil monkey and speak no evil monkey need to be reserved for pragmatic markup. I begin to think the "evil" in question may be side effects....

[pphaneuf]

Oh, man, you can use any Unicode character in Go identifiers. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy...

[sps]

Yes, well. When I was a grad student I rather boggled Hendrik by writing some code for his own Lisp dialect that he found non-obvious. Seemingly he was unaware that backspace-backspace-linefeed was a valid identifier.

[pphaneuf]

Ah, the wonders of finding a bug in your tokenizer... :-)