Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

Re:Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy progra... by munchler on Friday November 07, 2025 @04:51PM (#45851572)

Your point about the caret is interesting, but I'm a bit dubious about using them for vertical arrows. I don't think it would be practical to type this combination in one go, since the two symbols would be on two separate lines. For the upward arrow, are you suggesting caret-return-space-space-space-...-vertical bar?

Are there any programming languages that use vertical arrows? Do they appear on one line or two?

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Re:Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy progra... by o11c on Friday November 07, 2025 @05:34PM (#45852013)

> Are there any programming languages that use vertical arrows? Do they appear on one line or two?

Befunge (1993; many later languages were inspired by it) uses just the ASCII arrowheads. The arrow tail is more likely to exist in doc comments.

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Re:Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy progra... by leephillips on Friday November 07, 2025 @05:35PM (#45852032)

APL

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Re:Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy progra... by sayyadirfanali on Saturday November 08, 2025 @12:46AM (#45854472)

i don't think that qualifies. because the alignment issue is about multi-line alignment of upward arrows. APL usage is clearly meant to be covered by some single Unicode glyph.

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Re:Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy progra... by leephillips on Saturday November 08, 2025 @09:02AM (#45856720)

Ah, yes, I see now. I can’t imagine using a programming language where I had to compose symbols vertically. I don’t know if any such infernal language exists, and I don’t understand why o11c thinks it matters.

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