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kodecocodes / objective-c-style-guide

A style guide that outlines the coding conventions for Kodeco
http://www.raywenderlich.com/62570/objective-c-style-guide
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The Smiley Face Debate :] #13

Closed ricardo-rendoncepeda closed 10 years ago

ricardo-rendoncepeda commented 10 years ago

This one is just for fun!

In my first tutorial series I had my smiley face emoticons changed from :) to :]. I did not think the editors would actually change that - Lolz.

They're a very prominent style feature of the RW site, so I think we should dedicate a tiny section to them :]

gregheo commented 10 years ago

:+1:

I have to remember very hard to make :] smileys when chatting in IRC or on other "official" RW business.

icanzilb commented 10 years ago

true ... ray was the first guy I saw pushing for the square bracket ... but I got so used to it that I know catch myself doing it quite often too

ndubbs commented 10 years ago

I think this would add a bit of character and humor to the guide. We should come up with some technical jargon around this.

rwenderlich commented 10 years ago

LOL this is pretty funny. The reason I started using the :] was because in the way old days in AIM, whenever I'd use the normal smiley face :) AIM would replace the smiley face with this goofy looking face that annoyed the crap out of me, so I switched. I guess since I started using :], other authors started using it too for consistency.

It would be a funny thing to add in the guide though to keep it lighthearted/not totally serious. Someone should come up with a funny description/fake reason for this. I'll leave this to people funnier than me, like @elephantronic ;]