On 2020-05-28 12:01 AM, ben via cctalk wrote: > On 5/27/2020 8:43 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote: > >>> 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. > > 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
