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Re:Modern PHP by bmn__ on Sunday March 27, 2022 @02:23PM (#30822644)
> you should instantly realize what they represent

Often doesn't work in practice. I cannot instantly distinguish

• ‖ from ligated ||

• … from ligated ...

• ⁂ from ligated ***

• ⁇ from ligated ??

• → from ligated ->

• ↜ from ligated <~

• ↠ from ligated ->>

• ⇒ from ligated =>

• ⇔ from ligated <=>

• ⇜ from ligated <~~

• ∨ from ligated \/

• ∷ from ligated ::

• ≔ from ligated :=

• ≠ from ligated !=

• ≤ from ligated <=

• ≪ from ligated <<

• ⊢ from ligated |-

• ⋄ from ligated <>

• ⋘ from ligated <<<

• ◁ from ligated <|

• ⩵ from ligated ==

• × from ligated x with hex digits following

& al., but I have to examine the characters in kcharselect, a REPL or similar.

Re:Modern PHP by karlerss on Sunday March 27, 2022 @03:30PM (#30823265)
With monospaced fonts, as used in programming, the ligatures take up 2 or more "spaces", but the special characters only take up one space. Thus, they are quite easily distinguished, for me.
Re:Modern PHP by prophesi on Sunday March 27, 2022 @03:35PM (#30823321)
Linters will also complain if you find rare unicode symbols in your codebase as well.