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Lets not use code blocks for quotes, it makes a side-scrolling box. Just italics or sideways carrot is fine.

• jolmg 7y ago
  > sideways carrot First time I've heard that name for the angle bracket.
  • js2 7y ago
    You mean greater-than sign. :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater-than_sign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater-than_sign (I checked the source, it's a > And now I've used up my pedantic quota for the day.)
    • WMCRUN 7y ago
      Half a stream extraction operator :)
      • jolmg 7y ago
        Left-facing crocodile
        • blotter_paper 7y ago
          270 degree mountain.
          • bonyt 7y ago
            Fallen birthday hat. Okay, but seriously, Unicode has that listed as "greater than sign," and has several similar characters. U+003E > greater-than sign U+203A › single right-pointing angle quotation mark U+232A 〉 right-pointing angle bracket U+27E9 ⟩ mathematical right angle bracket U+3009 〉 right angle bracket http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
            • cmroanirgo 7y ago
              Lopsided equals sign
              • mikelyons 7y ago
                right chevron / right arrow
            • crobertsbmw 7y ago
              Did you not read the original comment about not using code blocks because they give us silly side scrolling boxes?
  • deleted 7y ago
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• rizz0 7y ago
  It’s not a quote, it’s a coding challenge.
• rmtech 7y ago
  yeah, this is unreadable on mobile.
• deleted 7y ago
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• dang 7y ago
  Ok, We took the leading spaces out of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21364038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21364038. (And detached this subthread therefrom.) https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc