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IMO using a lowercase l as a numeric variable is cursed. It is way too easy to read it as 1 in many monospace fonts.
by durumu 2y ago
IMO using a lowercase l as a numeric variable is cursed. It is way too easy to read it as 1 in many monospace fonts.
- sitkack 2y agoI totally agree. Maybe a font with boxes around the numbers? Or some other way to disambiguate them.
- rozab 2y agoPerhaps some sort of system could be implemented to cause the teleprinter to use a different variety of ink, depending on the nature and syntactic context of the symbol
- sitkack 2y agoI like this, for bold it could backup and hit that char again.
- gsck 2y agoOr just get a font that draws the i with a line and a dot correctly, and a 1 with the horizontal line at the bottom and the half width line at an angle at the top. You are using a bad font.