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I recently started using a font that has ligatures - they don't break alignment of mono-spaced text, for example a two-character ligature takes up the space of
by nmeofthestate 4y ago
I recently started using a font that has ligatures - they don't break alignment of mono-spaced text, for example a two-character ligature takes up the space of two characters.
I am not thrown by != showing up as an equals sign with a slash through it, because I can remember that this is in fact "!=". It's easier to read than the "raw" version. All in all I'm sold.
- cosmotic 4y agoI can remember that the inequality symbol means != but I'd prefer the lower cognitive load of not having to recall anything at all. I like that Typing "!=" results in "!=" being printed to the screen. I like that pressing backspace only affects the single preceding character/glyph instead of converting the ligature back into its constituent parts. It's a consistency thing. I'm never reading math textbooks written with latex and all the fancy ligatures and symbols. I spend my entire day reading and writing code, so consistency there is paramount.
- xigoi 4y agoI prefer the lower cognitive load of not having to recall that != means ≠.