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The most important invisible characters don't take up any space, so they can't be coloured in. |
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I tried but the marking pens really made a smeary mess. |
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//in lieu of getting any real work done - and to make sure nobody else will ever be able to use your [code]// |
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I had a (at the time, perfectly rational, but now on reflection) chaotic-evil phase where I used to adopt utf Greek letters for oft-used variables in my code - lots of lambdas, rhos and sigmas peppered about the place. |
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Sometimes I like to imagine I can hear the swearing drifting in the wind as new hires are asked to maintain the code. |
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I used to work with a scientist who did something similar, and your imaginings are spot-on. |
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I thought show non-printing characters was a well known thing |
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Is the proposed idea for a rendering system for normal characters, or an encoding system for coloured characters? I.e. are we proposing a UTFcode block for differently coloured spaces? |
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// show non-printing characters was a well known thing // |
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Absolutely is. What I propoose is to show them in various colours, especially adjacent runs of the same characters, Consider a run of 7 (or whas it 8?) spaces. If each adjacent one was a different colour (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) it would be eaiser to count them. |
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