Bankenstein@feddit.de to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoXKCD 1172feddit.deimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
arrow-up15arrow-down1imageXKCD 1172feddit.deBankenstein@feddit.de to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squaregbhorwood@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agohad a co-worker once who called the variable holding the first record in a complicated workflow “rec1st” and the last record “reclst”, unaware that in every font used by every code editor except his, a lowercase l and number 1 look identical. i spent a day debugging that after he quit.
minus-squareBankenstein@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoNo good code font would make 1 and l look identical. Character differentiability is like the most important thing. Look, JetBrains did it right.
had a co-worker once who called the variable holding the first record in a complicated workflow “rec1st” and the last record “reclst”, unaware that in every font used by every code editor except his, a lowercase l and number 1 look identical.
i spent a day debugging that after he quit.
No good code font would make
1andllook identical. Character differentiability is like the most important thing.Look, JetBrains did it right.