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Post #1916001
2026-05-03 01:21 UTC
Part of my mind goes to odd places from time to time. Like, a feature I've never seen in a programming language is support for genders. Classes could have genders for example. At first I thought you could do it the same way romance languages do: if it has a name ending in 'o' it's male, in 'a' it's female.
But then I thought even further, and because there's an element within the software development movement that's transphobic, we could make the language support, in theory, an infinite number of genders. Just to piss them off. Especially if you got them used to the idea everything was male or female with version 1 of the language (I mean ANSI Q 2026.1)
No, I don't know how it would work, what functionality it might bring, or why or what possible advantage this could have over normal programming languages.
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@vollink@wandering.shop 2026-05-03 02:07
@poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com Not even going to vote. The options tell me how you feel. Thing is, if genders are a form of "role" and a method can have 0, 1 or N, that could work for some obj scenarios, in which case the naming becomes the troll. Input v Output could be the first two. You know, male doesn't return any value.