1 26 Feb 2016 09:02 by u/NeedleStack
The italics were designed to tackle problems such the indistinguishability between a lower case “l,” an upper case “i,” and the number one.
If your code depends on this distinction then it is time to give your functions and variable better names instead of using this font.
I1|l
Ok, the 1 looks different on my iPhone.
lIlIl
Ok ... Yeah right ....
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Just checking if you got that last part.
It's not just variable declarations or checking input but have you tried reading small point size serial numbers???
They look fine to me. Although I've replaced all of my serif and sans serif fonts in Firefox with Bitter and prevented sites from setting their own.
Terminus does a decent job of it as well. Every other programming font has dealt with the problem without italics.
Using all pipes for the last bit seems like cheating.
Caught me on the pipes :-)
Nice job!
Thanks for the links for the fonts!
$199 for Operator Basic (10 styles) on one computer. Yeah, I don't think they understand programmers very well.
5 comments
0 u/roznak 26 Feb 2016 20:19
If your code depends on this distinction then it is time to give your functions and variable better names instead of using this font.
1 u/WhiteRonin 26 Feb 2016 20:27
I1|l
Ok, the 1 looks different on my iPhone.
lIlIl
Ok ... Yeah right ....
|||||
Just checking if you got that last part.
It's not just variable declarations or checking input but have you tried reading small point size serial numbers???
1 u/oddlydrawn 28 Feb 2016 07:47
They look fine to me. Although I've replaced all of my serif and sans serif fonts in Firefox with Bitter and prevented sites from setting their own.
Terminus does a decent job of it as well. Every other programming font has dealt with the problem without italics.
Using all pipes for the last bit seems like cheating.
1 u/WhiteRonin 01 Mar 2016 17:12
Caught me on the pipes :-)
Nice job!
Thanks for the links for the fonts!
0 u/Morbo 27 Feb 2016 01:58
$199 for Operator Basic (10 styles) on one computer. Yeah, I don't think they understand programmers very well.