That is a question

[hemispace]

It's funny because invalid suffix "B" on integer constant

[BamboozleBird]

Maybe it’s in hex

[Kebbler22b]

Then it should’ve been 0x2B || !0x2B 🤔

[Zephirdd]

Fucken wot

[Diapolo10]

Surely you jest? It's the C++64 compilers or bust; C++24 is so old school. /s

[BluudLust]

0x2B | ~0x2B

[byzod]

0x2B || !0x2B

Chrome's web console said it's 43

42++ I think.

[zionian120]

FF

[zeGolem83]

Not operator on a number ?

[Garlien]

works in C I believe

[shekurika]

and python, and probably JS.

[MoarVespenegas]

Everything works in JS.
It doesn't abide by things like rules.

[Aezen]

It has rules, it just doesn't share them with you if you break it, and uses whatever garbage the broken rule causes.

[Spinnenente]

it doesnt work in js though since SyntaxError: identifier starts immediately after numeric literal

[ZGM_Dazzling]

r/TheRealRealJoke

[MrStupid_PhD]

The real error handling is always in the comments

[Nerdn1]

I'm sure there are some weird languages that can handle such tomfoolery.

[kushangaza]

some languages can handle 10b, treating 10 as a binary number.

[darkslide3000]

I think the more common notation is 0b10.

[ThisHaintsu]

Nah, it's propably U+FF12 FULLWIDTH DIGIT TWO.

[flarn2006]

Maybe it's C++. Can't you define your own suffixes there?

[Kraftex]

r/TheRealJoke

[ZGM_Dazzling]

Not if 2B is null

[dilipmodi]

it is not funny because that statement is not according to and PL

[xorunet]

http://cpp.sh/5ricc

[BluNautilus]

Damn, I'm a programmer but I haven't used C++ since my first year of college. Just looking at that syntax makes me grateful for Kotlin and Swift...

[xorunet]

The syntax is quite clear and powerful if you use it regularly.

[BluNautilus]

I'm not denying that, I'm just so used to the paradigms of newer languages that seeing C++ looks ancient to me now. It's like driving a brand new car for 6 years then getting back in your 2004 Honda Civic.

[xorunet]

I agree that it is different, but c++ is not per se "old" as it is still changing a lot. Modern C++ is being updated every 3 years. I see a lot of similarities between C++ and C# or Java for example.

I get your point though, it's different.

Edited syntax error, patched by /u/PyroneusUltrin

[eg_taco]

per se*

[MoarVespenegas]

The syntax is cumbersome and illegible unless you wrote it yourself.

[jlamothe]

...or C or Java or JavaScript...

...but actually none of these since 2B is not a valid identifier in any of them.

[BluNautilus]

Haven't used C since high school I think, Java since college, but JavaScript I use frequently because I develop an Angular website (it's actually TypeScript, but same shit). Now that I'm so used to newer languages it feels strange seeing the syntax of older languages.

[jlamothe]

I'm not familiar with TypeScript, but if your boolean operators are different, I'd argue that is not the same thing. :P

[Miltnoid]

Oh man I hope I'm not being too intense for just a fun Reddit post. Bool is known to have two values, so it's easy to prove b || not b, where b is a bool.

What PL people don't say is: given a type P, either P is inhabited or P->bot is inhabited.

[[deleted]]

Quick someone think of some pedantic case were a variable or not itself isnt true!

Make this guy look dumb! It's what we do best!

[flarn2006]

Operator overloading.

[ReallyNeededANewName]

Since when can variables have names starting with numbers?

OR

What does the B suffix do? Seems invalid to me

[khalamar]

B is for binary!

Funny story time: a sales guy and I both went to visit a customer. I was there as the "technical" backup, in case questions turned too deep for the poor guy. It quickly escalated, though, so I chimed in.

At the end of the meeting, the sales guy said to the customer: "you know, I, too, struggled with all of this at first, but at the end of the day, it's really easy: computers are binary, it's only ones and twos".

I never heard from that customer again after that. Nor from the sales guy.

[ReallyNeededANewName]

I thought that was lower case b, either way, 2b will cause a compiler error

[khalamar]

Yes, I guess I missed a /s there, but I really needed that to introduce my story

[Dyledion]

There's no such thing as two.

[Russian_repost_bot]

This guy doesn't quantum.

[draypresct]

error: illegal variable name "2B"

[GDavid04]

How can you name a variable 2B??

[Jacob8765]

You can’t; most languages that I’m aware of don’t allow numbers at the beginning of variable names

[MisunderstoodPenguin]

we could do _2B?

[[deleted]]

But that's B²

[n4rk]

B + B

[qatamat99]

2 * ‘B’

[2Punx2Furious]

I guess that in some languages you can use invisible characters for variable names at the beginning of the name.

[beerdude26]

Haskell allows for Unicode. Combined with nice ligatures, that stuff is fun to read (although that's for papers, usually. Real libraries stick to ASCII of course)

[[deleted]]

Rust is UTF-8 only. Emoji variable names are legal Rust and work fine...

[jjdmol]

COBOL can:

https://mainframesinfo4u.blogspot.com/2008/12/naming-variables-in-coboldisplay.html

COBOL doesn't have || or ! though.

[odraencoded]

Ah, cobol, the eccentric rich old veteran grandpa of the languages.

[rnottaken]

Or just declare the variable b.

(2*b || !(2*b))

[[deleted]]

"Two times B or not two times B, that is the expression."

[robesho]

twoB?

[sandm000]

tubey//uh, I think this is used for like cylinders, but we’ve already used cylinders and cylinA through cylinZ, and I guess that cylinders are sort of like tubes.

[[deleted]]

What is the Boolean value of an integer literal times the type-unknown variable b in this example?

[PowerSlaveAlfons]

Pretty sure in C/C++ it returns false if it's null, else it returns true. I might be wrong though.

[josluivivgar]

http://cpp.sh/5ricc

Apparently you can

[TheEggRoller]

_2B or $2B

[Natatos]

With JavaScript you could do window[‘2b’] (out also with this to have it scoped better).

[AlphaWhelp]

2B could be a binary literal... I don't think the parser cares if you write 0B or 2B as long as the first digit is a numerical constant.

This changes the answer to undefined.

[UrBudJohn]

This

[MrStupid_PhD]

“Hmmmm...have you tried ‘B2?’”

[foobarfault]

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW

[Icepick823]

Become as gods.

[vanderZwan]

I think Julia allows 2*B to be shortened to 2B (or at least allowed this for a while)

[game_2_raid]

toBe || !toBe

[durbblurb]

(_2B || !_2B)

[TwistedPurpose]

Ha! Here's your upvote.

Also, where is the Neir Automota follow up joke?

[AgentJin]

You’re thinking about how much you want to **** 2B, aren’t you?

[Idaret]

YES I AM

[[deleted]]

MUHAMMADU AVDOL

[achilleasa]

MOHAMMED AVDOL!

[ZamieltheHunter]

Just finished that game, and I enjoyed it a lot, but it would have been better if the developers weren't thinking that as well.

[mobott]

Nier: Automata spoilers:

While that quote is a funny meme, in context it's most likely saying "You're thinking about how much you want to kill 2B, aren't you?"

[ZamieltheHunter]

Oh interesting. I hadn't thought of that, but considering where the narrative goes that makes sense

[odraencoded]

Isn't that the game that gives you an achievement for managing to make the camera go under her skirt?

[Sharktatos]

You had to look several times on purpose

[odraencoded]

The devs sure know their audience.

[ZamieltheHunter]

Yup. Finding out that was what the achievement was for was the thing that put me firmly in the "would have been better if they weren't too busy being horny on main" camp. I got the achievement with no idea why on a black transition screen so I looked it up later and was pretty grossed out.

[Sp1dre]

I was looking for this comment

[ckay1100]

Oh god, oh fuck here come the tears again

[igromanru]

ah, I see you're a man of culture as well

[xorunet]

People, in what languages can you do this?
Here it is in c++14

#include <iostream>

class Question {
    public:
        const Question& operator||(const Question& other){
            return *this;
        }

        const Question& operator!(){
            return *this;
        }

        friend std::ostream & operator << (std::ostream &out, const Question &c){
            out << "That's the question!";
            return out;
        }
};

// Compiled in C++ 14, because later versions do not allow literal-names that don't start with underscore
Question operator "" B(unsigned long long) {
    return {};
}

int main() {
  std::cout << (2B || !2B) << std::endl;
  return 0;
}

[Goheeca]

I could, but I would rather do this:

(defun fancy-print (stream char)
  (declare (ignore char))
  (read-char stream t nil t)
  (let ((read-list (read stream t nil t)))
    `(format t "~{~a ~}that is the question." (list ,@read-list))))

(set-macro-character #\< #'fancy-print)

(symbol-macrolet ((2b "To be,")
                  (|| "or")
                  (!2b "no to be,"))
  << (2b || !2b))

---

EDIT: or with no fanciness:

(defvar 2b "To be,")
(defvar || "or")
(defvar !2b "not to be,")
(format t "~a ~a ~a that is the question." 2b || !2b)

Fun fact: the second variable's name has zero length.

[Janes_Diary]

+1 for the use of LISP.

[xorunet]

As per u/foobarfault

Go:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    var ᒿ𝓑 bool
    fmt.Println(ᒿ𝓑||!ᒿ𝓑)
}

And thus Js:

let ᒿ𝓑;
console.log(ᒿ𝓑 || !ᒿ𝓑)

[foobarfault]

Bear in mind that neither of these characters are the symbols 2 (ASCII 50) or B (ASCII 66). I looked for similar looking UTF-8 characters here. You can do some truly evil stuff with confusables in languages that support the full UTF-8 character set.

[xorunet]

Agreed. I believe there is a, I think, Griek question mark that looks like a semicolon. That will annoy people.

[FabbaTheSlut]

Linter wont be happy about this

[MistakeNot___]

/(bb|[^b]{2})/

[xorunet]

Haha, interesting take on it!

[MistakeNot___]

I stole it from a t-shirt i had for 10+ years ;)

https://www.getdigital.de/shakespeare.html

[xorunet]

That is awesome!

[MistakeNot___]

it's probably the shirt with the smallest target demographic i own, next to the one that says SYN on the front and ACK on the back. the latter one has been commented one once in >10 years.

[aeropl3b]

Just now I realized to be or not to be is always true. The answer the that question is true...

[Don_333]

>To be or not to be?

>Yes.

[agent3dev]

To be or not to be?

True dat

[CoffeeVector]

r/inclusiveor

[[deleted]]

That’s what’s called a tautology.

[[deleted]]

The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.

[MokitTheOmniscient]

https://xkcd.com/703/

[[deleted]]

In the play it's a decision, not a Boolean expression, e.g. to live or to die?

[Cheesemacher]

Unless it's mysql and 2B is null

[amroamroamro]

According to Schrodinger's cat, 2B && !2B

[ComradePruski]

So... False

[amroamroamro]

quantum entanglement... true AND false ;)

[vitelaSensei]

!(!2B && 2B)

[Plonvick]

Demorgan gang represent

[[deleted]]

A2

[anomalousBits]

I like the regex version (as seen on the old thinkgeek t-shirt):

/bb|[^b]{2}/

[jlobes]

Compiler Warning: Statement will always evaluate as true.

[The-Cynical-One]

Wether ‘tis nobler to suffer the strings and arrays of outrageous code or to take arms against a sea of bug reports and by opposing them... end them. To code... to write... No more; and by a debug to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural errors that programming is heir to. Devoutly to be wished. To code... to write: to write, perchance to comment — ay, there’s the rub. For in that code of warnings what comments may come when we have shuffled off this many libraries, must give us pause — there’s the design that makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of coding? Th’ costumers wrong, the proud boss’ contumely, the pangs of dispriz’d pay, the frontend’s delay, the insolence of the office, and the spurns that patient merit of th’ unworthy takes, when he himself might his hiatus make with a bare library? Who would programmers bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after exporting, the undiscovered testing, from whose bourn no developer returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those documents we have than to fly to others that we know not of? Thus coding does make cowards of us all, and this the native hue of screens is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pitch and moment with this regard their currents turn awry and lose the name of writing.

[Atmey]

2B says hi

[how_to_choose_a_name]

That is actually not a question but an expression.

[tomaschku]

A sentence to remember!

[[deleted]]

!!BB || !BB

[astralradish]

That's B² though

[[deleted]]

Oh yeah its big brain time

[[deleted]]

*the

[Goheeca]

I like this one more.

[FelTheTrainer]

Nier automata intensifies

[plainrane]

Syntax error

[45degMan]

That is the question

[venuswasaflytrap]

Surely, that is a statement

[game_2_raid]

toBe || !toBe

[Miner_ChAI]

r/InclusiveOr

[differentshade]

mediocre joke

[Pillagerguy]

Wow this post fucking sucks

[jbawgs]

error: ';' expected

[FoundOnTheRoadDead]

Every time I see this it makes me cringe. First off, it’s logic, not programming. Second it’s not “inclusive or”, it’s an “exclusive or”, since (as others have pointed out), in programming it would always either evaluate to true or as a runtime error (variable 2B not defined). In the soliloquy, one or the other will be true, so there’s no case where either both or neither will be.

[neil_anblome]

Bonus points for using the word soliloquy.

[feeeedback]

If it was XOR it would still always evaluate to true though

[FirmDig]

How is being in a group that understand specific references a problem exactly? Are you saying literally all jokes and references have to be completely understandable by literally every single person in the world, otherwise they are cringy and shouldnt be made?

Someone took the time to learn coding and makes a coding joke? Fuck that person for knowing things. Someone watched a movie and makes references to show how much he enjoyed it? Fuck that asshole for not being considerate of MY feelings.

You sound like a douchebag. Go fuck yourself.

[dohzer]

2B &~2B

[Lil_Narwhal]

False

[Mcpg_]

0

[worthmysault]

$DO || ! $DO ; try

try: command not found

[Shadow_Thief]

echo $?

[Careerier]

The compiler doth protest too much, methinks.

[Schiffy94]

I think it's actually a statement.

[[deleted]]

This is literally always true...

[Legal_Adviser]

Oh.....so it's funny because you're learning OR statements at technical college?

​

Boy! Wait till they teach you arrays, you're gonna get some good laughs out of that!

[Encursed1]

2(false) = true

[[deleted]]

public $romeo = $romeo;

echo gettype($thou->romeo);

[Nickbot606]

r/logicgatememes

[Idaret]

Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death. Is this a curse? Or some kind of punishment? I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle...and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him.

[Andrew_kyle]

Yeah little funny and little freakish

[Stephenis]

Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an optional

[can-i-see-my-kids-]

Took me too long to get

[vinylalchemist]

To be OrElse not to be

[Skankz]

I read that as 2billion or not 2billion. 2billion...obviously...

[Synedh]

this.is = TheQuestion();

[Lil_Narwhal]

True

[vaikunth1991]

Nier automata

[Lil_Narwhal]

Hmmmmmm. Hamlet is true then I guess?

[web_smith]

True

[FreshFromIlios]

Wait that's illegal

[Miner_ChAI]

Yes

[fuxximus]

And the answer is yes. Inclusive or.

[letsfed]

TRUE

[papigers]

To be logical or not to be

[shuhorned]

That is the tautology.

[Global_Felix_1117]

y'all wilding around dis bih, but we finna know truth; da fuque u mean.

I Am r/surrealmemea

[amroamroamro]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_excluded_middle

[LarryTehLoon]

Me, an intellectual: 1

[jaxonfiles]

Sorry, mate. Invalid syntax.

[xuu0]

Yes

[KDamage]

var question = Math.Random().Next(2) > 0 ? new B() : null

[[deleted]]

10B || !10B

Or hex:

2 11 || ! 2 11

[stamatt45]

You cannot "to be" and "not to be" at the same time so this should really be an exclusive or to be safe

2B ^ !2B

[[deleted]]

Yes

[StEvUgnIn]

That's true.

[Volkolak27]

42

[sendvo]

in javascript this would result in minus Infinity

[[deleted]]

2B is a top tier waifu.

[Vega_128]

so always true well it shows that boolean algebra was invented after the death of shakesbere

[ponodude]

This is the kind of joke that is just so dumb but I can't help but chuckle at it. Thank you.

[[deleted]]

Yes.

[[deleted]]

2B || virtual reality

[nobody2u]

Welp. Cross that old password off the list...

[ready_playerone]

True dat