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0 pointsKlathmon6y ago0 comments

This is why I love how configurable editors are now days.

I absolutely adore ligatures in my programming fonts. I've been using FiraCode for at least a year or 2 now, and while i'll be the first to admit that the reason I enabled ligatures was because they looked cool, now I really miss them when they aren't there.

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lokedhs6y ago· 3 in thread

I'd much rather see languages take advantage of characters outside of ASCII. There are already symbols such as ⇒ which could be used by a language.

This is a nice feature of APL, and the derivatives such as J which use plain ASCII are much less nice to work with.

Piskvorrr6y ago

That's...a terrible idea. You're now bound to a specific subset of editors that are capable of producing ⇒ (as opposed to the two-character => ), for...for what?

For looking pretty, I assume: that's probably a matter of UI (editor displays arrow character instead of equals+greaterThan), but should not propagate into actual source code.

boutad6y ago

That seems like it would be difficult to type.

necovek6y ago

What's stopping editors to provide shortcuts akin to ligatures? Eg. typing "=>" would make use of the "follows" sign.

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