Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses

 (blog.ikaes.de)

47 points | by aragonite 2 days ago

7 comments

  • hans_castorp 19 minutes ago
    This reminds me of "Creators admit Unix, C hoax" (e.g. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html)

    > We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax:

        for(;P("\n"),R--;P("|"))for(e=C;e--;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);
  • nathell 11 minutes ago
    I love this. This is a fun hack, but the article also hearkens back to pre-LLM days when people were still interested in _code_.
  • TheSilva 42 minutes ago 

      Object.prototype.message='alert\x281337\x29';Array.prototype.toString=Error.prototype.toString;Error.prepareStackTrace = Function;const x = new Error;x.valueOf=x.stack;+x;
    Well, that's a mouthful! So many years and JavaScript still can do the most amazing, weird, awesome, scary, obscure, and sexy things in the world of coding.
  • pards 33 minutes ago
    Off topic: This website looks like a ransom note
  • semiquaver 41 minutes ago
    JavaScript is so cursed.
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    • user____name 2 minutes ago
      If I were to write a book on programming in JS, it would be a black cover with the JS Holy Trinity equality diagram in red, to emphasize its Satanic nature.
  • CoalitionOfPity 28 minutes ago
    GPTzero says this entire thing is AI generated for those concerned.
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    • user____name 0 minutes ago
      GPT also thinks Frankenstein and Moby Dick are 100% AI last time I checked.
    • fzzzy 1 minute ago
      And it's wrong
    • nathell 8 minutes ago
      Doesn’t feel LLM-y to me. If it is LLM-generated, the LLM must have been explicitly instructed to ignore sentence capitalization and invent a persona (‘i chose...’).
    • nmstoker 21 minutes ago
      Aha, that's a great reassurance then! ;-)
    • LatencyKills 23 minutes ago
      The irony of using AI to determine if something was written by AI.
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  • aktenlage 38 minutes ago
    What's the purpose of the +x at the end?
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    • undecidabot 25 minutes ago
      The unary plus implicitly converts an expression to a number, which calls `valueOf` for non-primitive values.
    • emaro 34 minutes ago
      I think to implicitly trigger the valueOf function.