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why should anyone spend a single second of their lives thinking about this?
by _dain_ 3y ago
why should anyone spend a single second of their lives thinking about this?
- db48x 3y agoBecause readability is really important. We can't do much to improve monspaced environments such as the terminal, but most documentation, even man pages, is read in the browser. Using an ASCII ‘-’ to indicate a minus sign in a mathematical expression is quite bad for readability. It is usually less of a problem to use it as a hyphen, but a real hyphen will generally look better.
- smegsicle 3y agosome people like trains− others, dashes let us not judge