Re: When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

I don't like smilies in the middle of a paragraph (most of the time) ;-)

The real problem appears when a smiley is replaced by an icon in the wrong place by a forum software... This does not look nice in a phpBB post:
10 READ A :PRINT A :DATA (8 + 8)

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Re^2: When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you: by marinersk (Priest) on Mar 06, 2015 at 21:36 UTC
I compensate for ascinine graphics interpeters trying to detextify my emoticons by adding a space (which I fully expect to see thwarted by some self-righteous prat developer in the future): `: -)`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you: by ambrus (Abbot) on Mar 16, 2015 at 15:42 UTC
Ok, but how do you add a space to a statement like `use Data:☺umper;` and still have working code?	[reply]