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> the way people actually have come to use it I have never seen anyone use it as part of an up arrow spread across two lines in the way that you’re suggesting.
by sevg 11mo ago
> the way people actually have come to use it
I have never seen anyone use it as part of an up arrow spread across two lines in the way that you’re suggesting. So I don’t really understand your point.
Ok it’s not symmetrical, but I don’t buy your argument that it _should_ be (or that it’s a reasonable complaint to make about a font).
- normie3000 11mo ago> I have never seen anyone use it as part of an up arrow spread across two lines in the way that you’re suggesting. You've never heard of "caret and stick"?
- Culonavirus 11mo agoTotally. Ultra niche edge case nonsense.
- pessimizer 11mo agoRust compiler error output certainly uses a lot of vertical arrows. But it also highlights the fact that the caret is often used to highlight characters on the line above, and if it were lower it would be worse at doing that. I do hate this asymmetry when I'm trying to do an ASCII flowchart of some sort. But I'd also like to add that calling it an unreasonable complaint sounds a little hysterical. It's just a complaint. It's also a clear one, and of obvious use.