Just get a font with ligatures

On Fri., Jan. 20, 2023, 02:45 Julien Allali via Std-Proposals, <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> As I say: it is mostly anecdotal but acceptable as non-ASCII character
> are already in standard (for variable name, you can use character such
> as "é" for example). The "cost" for such proposal is almost nothing and
> the benefit is purely visual:
>
> A *p;
>
> p→m();
>
> in addition to (not in place of) the classical:
>
> p->m();
>
> The symbol → is U+2192. The implementation in an editor or IDE would be
> easy.
>
> For other characters (U+27E8 ...), I do not see any benefit at all, even
> visually.
>
>
>
> On 20/01/2023 08:30, Jens Maurer wrote:
> >
> > On 20/01/2023 08.05, Julien Allali via Std-Proposals wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> Even if it looks anecdotal, I would like to suggest support for unicode
> >> right arrow character → as a valid substitution for ->.
> > Which character exactly are you talking about? Please indicate the
> > code point number.
> >
> > Why? What would be the benefit? This suggestion would make the
> > basic C++ syntax non-ASCII, which seems a non-starter to me.
> >
> > Why only the right arrow character, and not any of the other
> > look-alikes for C++ syntax characters, e.g.
> >
> > U+27E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET
> > U+27E9 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET
> >
> > ?
> >
> > Jens
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