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agree except for the pre-processor part which should belong to the editor macro or keyboard shortcut space.

• Pxtl 9y ago
  Well, providing the replacement engine as part of the language compiler package as a simple command-line tool you can hook into your editor of choice as a hotkey so I can say "replace all the operators in this file with their appropriate mathematical unicode counterpart".
  • masklinn 9y ago
    This is what e.g. many Haskell developers do, the issue is that this will usually fuck up alignment (because the base font does not contain the non-ascii symbols) and generate different alignments between different viewing contexts. It also leads to odd issues where deleting a character just changes it and doesn't move the cursor at all. Ligatures are a time-honored way to improve the look and feel of combinations of characters, that's basically the entire point of them.