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by chipsrafferty
634 days ago
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I'm a bit confused. My only experience with ligatures is in vscode, I don't use them personally, but I've seen it where if you type >= then it changes it to look like ≥, if you hover over it, it shows >=, if you put your cursor to the right of it and hit delete, it deletes just the = and not the >, in other words, it is just >= except visually. On a git diff it would still be >=. So I understand how you could have confusion in your case if you have logical comparators for ≥ and also have strings with "≥" or even variable names, if your language is permissive enough to allow that. But if you search for "≥" it should not return the ">=" disguised as "≥", ...right? |
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That’s my issue :). Languages like Julia permit both “>=" and "≥" in the source code with the same meaning. But if you use say search-based navigation of your file, how do you know which one to type to get where you want?
Or in Python I’ve seen some people make “alpha” render as α, since it’s a common variable name in physics codes. But “α” itself is a valid Python variable name, and I personally use Greek letters in Python physics code and know others do as well. That can again be confusing, since in Python “alpha” and “α” are not the same variable, so it’s crucial to write it correctly.