28 May
2020
28 May
'20
6:49 a.m.
On 2020-05-28 12:01 AM, ben via cctalk 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.
The source code is ASCII; the arrows are ligatures in the Fira Code
typeface.
Arrows were also a typographic convention in many books, e.g.
* Hundreds of textbooks using Pascal-ish pseudocode
* the Smalltalk-80 books
* Knuth's literate programs
And many languages define -> and <- tokens, even =>
So it does seem to be a thing people like to see.
--Toby
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.