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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a project I'm following where an opcode called "SUICIDE" (which deleted the program it was triggered from) was renamed "SELFDESTRUCT" because people were bothered by the reference to self-harm. I personally considered it a waste of effort, but at least in that case it was really just a matter of changing some strings in the documentation and having compilers accept either label for it, since the opcode itself didn't change is value.

The opcode is likely to be entirely deprecated soon anyway, which IMO makes it even more of a waste of time. Oh well.