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I find proportional fonts terrible for coding because they make subtle differences in punctuation hard to see, suh as " versus '' or … versus ... .
by xigoi 2y ago
I find proportional fonts terrible for coding because they make subtle differences in punctuation hard to see, suh as " versus '' or … versus ... .
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoIt doesn’t turn out to be problem in progress. Even having I and l look the same isn’t something that I ever need to think about.
- efortis 2y agoI l | 1 I once had trouble with a variable named ‘l’ because I thought it was a pipe (bitwise or in js)
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI just tried it out, but then I realized (a) I never use capital I as a standalone variable name...and I never used it period. i will always be an integer anyways. Since coding standards enforce nice variable names and forbid ascii spacing art, ya, it never comes up.
- efortis 2y agoLigatures are not particular to proportional fonts. For example, Hasklig has a few handy ones.