28 May
2020
28 May
'20
6:12 a.m.
The fancy arrows in Fira Code are ligatures. (Yuk! I'm not yet a convert)
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MonospacedProgrammingFontsWithLigatures.aspx
ASCII-63 had a backward-arrow that disappeared in later revisions of the
standard, replaced with underscore (and also an upward-arrow which was at
the codepoint now used for the caret). But the PDP1 arrow wasn't ASCII. I
believe it's the FIO-DEC encoding, and used an IBM typewriter console,
https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_decpdp1F17_28841238/F17_PDP1Maint_1962…
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:01 AM ben via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 5/27/2020 8:43 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
That is why clicking with my mouse did nothing.
I like if eif else fi for if statements.
What keyboard are you using to get the fancy arrows?
Ben.
At the
moment I have no wish to fight a web site,to find what should be
simple information.
It's a picture. They can be useful.