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Anyone could explain why *** ligature exists?

• SonOfLilit 3y ago
  I'm guessing they'd say "because it looks nicer". I'm not aware of a language that treats it specially. I do think I've seen it before, I don't think it's a new idea. Probably some typographic tradition from when it was used as a section separator in prose.
• tlh 3y ago
  I’ve not seen it in code, but if you were writing prose you might use it as a section break. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(typography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(typography) Edit: it’s called an Asterism
  • Ndymium 3y ago
    It's used in Robot Framework code, but that's the only place I can think of.