Commenter raises readability concerns about keyword sigils
4 Sep 22 2:34 PM · 1d ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 7
A reader acknowledges the technical merit of using sigils to distinguish keywords but argues that from a human perspective, sigils would make code harder to read.
“I am sympathetic to the pure technical reason to add sigils to keywords, but from a human point of view they would make reading the code a lot more unpleasant.”
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I am sympathetic to the pure technical reason to add sigils to keywords, but from a human point of view they would make reading the code a lot more unpleasant.
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Algol 60 and Algol 68 had boldface keywords, which look great. In the 1960's, there were no affordable hi res graphics displays and no affordable hi res graphics printers, so nobody implemented the language that way AFAIK. Now we have cheap hi res graphics, and the Unicode standard has upper and lower case latin letters in boldface. So there's not…
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