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Re:Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures by cordite on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:06PM (#14822581)
www was unnerving to me (and a couple of my team members) too.

In a way I am interested in psychological basis for my innate rejection of this. Conceptually, I comprehend why it is made into it's own ligature, like !=, it is a unit of information these days.

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Re:Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures by vanderZwan on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:05PM (#14823756)
Well, for starters it's an abbreviation, whereas -> or != is an approximation of a symbol, so that makes it different from the rest. Also, you're on a website that has no www in any part of its website, so it's not nearly as ubiquitous.

If anything I think it makes more sense to have :// as a ligature.

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