>Permission to make digital or hard copies of portions of this work for personal use is granted;
permission to make digital or hard copies of portions of this work for classroom use is also granted,
but seems ill-advised
Tangentially related, the only way for a Java properties file to be invalid is if it contains an invalid Unicode escape sequence (“\u” not followed by four digits, and not preceded by an odd number of “\”).
Figure 6 represents the string
“gggijgziifiiffif”, which by pure
coincidence happens to accurately
represent the authors’ verbal reaction
upon learning that “unquoted strings”
were a feature intentionally included in
the Perl language
2024 (515 points, 125 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40197013
2021 (431 points, 165 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27929730
EDIT: From their 2026 publication
>Permission to make digital or hard copies of portions of this work for personal use is granted; permission to make digital or hard copies of portions of this work for classroom use is also granted, but seems ill-advised