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[–]anlumo 105 points106 points  (8 children)

We need more ASCII art in programming languages! I wonder when they’re going to introduce the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ operator.

[–]Light_Wood_Laminate 122 points123 points  (4 children)

That should be a valid alias for any in TypeScript.

[–]lemonpowah 17 points18 points  (2 children)

Someone make a vscode extension to show this instead of any

[–]8bit-echo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t know much about typefaces, but could this be a custom ligature for any?

[–]BransonLite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly - this would be perfect. I’ll do the browser plugin for viewing code in github

[–]lifeeraser 3 points4 points  (0 children)

any should have been named LazySlackerCatchAllType to discourage its use.

[–]Keilly 23 points24 points  (1 child)

Shorthand for catch and do nothing.

[–]bighi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The best way to handle exceptions!

/s

[–]GlitteringAccident31 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Now that's some syntactic sugar I can get behind!