XKCD 1172feddit.deimage Bankenstein ( @Bankenstein@feddit.de ) Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago message-square17fedilinkarrow-up168
arrow-up168imageXKCD 1172feddit.de Bankenstein ( @Bankenstein@feddit.de ) Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago message-square17fedilink
minus-square gbhorwood ( @gbhorwood@kbin.social ) linkfedilink3•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-square japps13 ( @japps13@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink1•1 year agoMaybe he wasn’t really unaware that only his font choice differentiated the names.
minus-square Bankenstein ( @Bankenstein@feddit.de ) OPlinkfedilink1•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.
Maybe he wasn’t really unaware that only his font choice differentiated the names.
No good code font would make
1
andl
look identical. Character differentiability is like the most important thing.Look, JetBrains did it right.