canpolat@programming.dev to Programming@programming.devEnglish · edit-211 months agoFalsehoods Programmers Believe About Nameswww.kalzumeus.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down12
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minus-squarepivot_root@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down1·11 months ago100% agree. ™@tld user-at-fqdn@domain.tld. "user with spaces"@domain.tld "user@notdomain"@domain.tld endswitha_@domain.tld user+tag@gmail.com unicodedomain@🤡.tld All of those are valid, and the know-it-all developer’s shitty regex won’t cover most of them.
minus-squareeluvatar@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down4·11 months agoExcept lots of email services won’t take a technically correct email anyway.
minus-squareonolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·11 months ago“Systems that break email already exist, so let’s add more to the world.” Please, no.
100% agree.
™@tlduser-at-fqdn@domain.tld."user with spaces"@domain.tld"user@notdomain"@domain.tldendswitha_@domain.tlduser+tag@gmail.comunicodedomain@🤡.tldAll of those are valid, and the know-it-all developer’s shitty regex won’t cover most of them.
Except lots of email services won’t take a technically correct email anyway.
“Systems that break email already exist, so let’s add more to the world.”
Please, no.