in reply to Perl Secret Operator Emojis

$A++ is a deformation of "A plus" which is itself the common way to shorten "A plus tard". It is for the French what "see you" is to "see you later" in English.

-- stefp

And for the Australians, what "see ya" is to "see ya later mate" (or "see ya later cobber").

-- eyepopslikeamosquito

Like the JAPH, the $A++ is just an arbitrary canonical program. An $A++ does not emit anything, it just increments the variable $A. Traditionally, it's a parting word to end an email with, so it should be short.

The first $A++ was composed by BooK 📕 on Friday Oct 15 1999: 

$A = eval q.@{[.."0,"x$A.qq|0]}|

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Not bad for a first attempt! A bit more interesting than the first JAPH. ;-)

As indicated above (and in more detail at The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part III): Obfu) the $A++ has a long and proud tradition in Obfuscated Perl culture, and so is definitely worthy of an emoji. Here are my first attempts:

💵🅰✝️✝️

💲🅰➕➕

🤑🅰✝️✝️

Improvements welcome!

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Re^2: Perl Secret Operator Emojis ($A++)
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Nov 08, 2023 at 08:00 UTC

    Since $A++ is typically used as a "see you later" sign-off, I suppose you might try adding some sort of farewell emoji; the only one I could find was a waving hand.

    💲🅰➕➕👋

    BTW, I had no luck rendering flag emojis, presumably because most platforms understandably don't want to become embroiled in online political brawls (e.g. displaying of country flags while wars are raging). See also: Flag emojis not rendering (SO).

    Update: Final version with kcott's improved farewell emoji:

    💲🅰➕➕🙋

    Further update: With symbolic plus symbol (suggested by kcott here):

    💲🅰⁺⁺🙋 

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      "... some sort of farewell emoji; the only one I could find was a waving hand."

      How about 🙋 U+1F64B HAPPY PERSON RAISING ONE HAND?

      You can also customise. Some examples:
      🙋‍♂️ 1F64B 200D 2642 FE0F ♂️ [sex]
      🙋🏾 1F64B 1F3FE [skin tone]
      🙋🏼‍♀️ 1F64B 1F3FC 200D 2640 FE0F ♀️ [skin tone & sex]

      And, no doubt, with your (much better than my) Segoe UI Emoji font, you could make them young, old, bald, red-headed, bearded, bespectacled, and so on. ☺️

      "I had no luck rendering flag emojis"

      Are you using U+1F1E6 REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER A through U+1F1FF REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER Z?

      Some are obvious (like AU for Australia):
      🇦 + 🇺 = 🇦🇺

      Some are less obvious (United Kingdom needs GB for Great Britain):
      🇬 + 🇧 = 🇬🇧

      They don't have to be country flags:
      🇺 + 🇳 = 🇺🇳

      — Ken

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        How about 🙋 U+1F64B HAPPY PERSON RAISING ONE HAND?

        Oh yes, that's much better! - the other one 👋 can apparently be used to "snarkily end a conversation (or an entire relationship) with someone who is bothering you".

        Are you using U+1F1E6 REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER A through U+1F1FF REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER Z?

        I believe so. For the Swedish flag I tried U+1F1F8 U+1F1EA because I wanted to see how the Swedish flag looked as a plus sign in an $A++ emoji ... but was bitterly disappointed to see it rendered not as a flag with a nice plus sign in the middle, but as a boring SE, as you will probably see in the next paragraph:

        Swedish flag: 🇸🇪

        If you know how to render it as a flag with a plus sign, please post it as a reply. 

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