Imagine, if you will. A world where string reverse changes the character codes of the string.
What beauty, what wonder would such a world have?
Destruction and despair. Developers unsure why their programs don’t respond correctly. Ships run aground on islands already overcrowded with those who were shipwrecked before. Signal antennas pointed towards the sun with it’s constant noise. Spacecraft whose exhaust melt to slag populated cities as people briefly scream their final terrors of pain and suffering.
This, is a world we should not want to live in. A world you can only find, in the Twilight Zone.
“🇮🇪”.reverse() = “🇨🇮”
but sometimes “👍🏽”.reverse() == “🏽👍”
Yet we live in a world where
“A”.reverse() === “A”
"A".reverse() == "∀"Where is your god now?!
Has someone made a library for that?
Use a dynamically typed language and you won’t have to: just override the default
reverse()method on strings like a Real Programmer!Unintended consequences you say? Nonsense! What could possibly go wrong?
I’m tempted to publish an NPM package to do so as a joke, but I fear that it’d get used seriously
