Where you can (and can't) use Emoji in PHP (shkspr.mobi)

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[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm baffled at how the author just glosses over how the emoji for 5 doesn't work "because functions can't start with a number".

This seems to imply there is some kind of textual substitution going on, which further implies I could call an emoji named function by some other plaintext name.

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