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Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by NikkiA on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:52PM (#20031933)
¬ is one of the many 'not' symbols that has been used through history.

As to why UK keyboards include it? Probably IBM, ¬ was the negation/not symbol in Z, it wouldn't surprise me if Hursley Park petitioned the rest of the company to ensure it was on the UK PC layout.

(This Z: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation )

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Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by rhinoceraptor on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @01:22PM (#20032207)
It makes a good EOL character to highlight trailing whitespace.
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Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by NikkiA on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @01:31PM (#20032346)
True, but unicode gives us ⏎ which is pretty unambiguous
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