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Here's my example: in JS code, what does // mean? Is it the start of a line comment or the empty regex? The difference between them is nothing. If you could wri

Here's my example: in JS code, what does // mean? Is it the start of a line comment or the empty regex? The difference between them is nothing. If you could write nothing as _, one would be /_/ and one would be //_

protocolture 16d ago
You want a character that stands in for theres no character here?
- conartist6 16d ago
  Yes. If we could find some such character that was completely safe all the time, we would have a system of universal templating for all programming languages. ...but we can basically prove to ourselves that we'll never find any completely safe unicode code point to use for the purpose that will never be in conflict with the syntax of any language. ...so are we done for? Nah, we just need an embedding