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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Have you?

    Is your argument that compilers need to change their output based on the way that text gets displayed to users? That’s a pretty wild claim to make.

    • Zexks@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Yes i have. Several. Its kind of a right of passage after a certain point. They evaluate your desired commands by interpreting the symbols you use and the order you put them in. So yes if you put your symbols in different orders they will be interpreted differently. The way the text is displayed to users is a representation of how it is stored. If you want to have different viewing standards for the same code youre going to have to ALSO code for those different views. Or you force it and tell everyone that YOUR way is the ONLY way and you code your IDE as such.

      For pretty much every language BUT python you can “view” it however you want. So long as youre willing to code your display to do as much.