Motorola and a Dell wireless keyboard.
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Is that a ligature for
;;? What language uses that to mean something? ๐คYou might be thinking of Brainfuck.
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Hmm, the text does look somewhat like Brainfuck, but Brainfuck doesn't seem to use semicolons.
My question comes from the two semicolons on line 14 being pushed closer together. I assume the font has a ligature for when two semicolons are next to each other. Presumably, it's some coding font, which would also use ligatures to turn e.g
->intoโand things like that.But yeah, you don't usually include such ligatures into a font, unless there is a specific use-case for that. There could be a programming language that uses
;;to start a line comment, for example. But I'm really not sure, if I've ever seen that, hence my question. ๐ซClojure for example
Aha! Seems to just be a convention to use multiple semicolons for full-line comments, but that's still probably it then.
https://ostash.dev/posts/2021-02-19-clojure-code-comments/
Thanks! ๐
That is interesting. They're definitely closer together on line 14 than on line 7.
C and C++ use
for (;;) {}as an unconditional loop.Ah, good point. Does make me wonder how the font developers test the effect of certain ligatures, like did they actually have both Clojure comments and unconditional C loops in mind when they introduced this ligature...? I guess, it doesn't really break anything, so could just introduce it and see if anyone complains.