Jan. 18, 2022
5:03 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 1:15 AM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
I would be more sympathetic to this idea if:
2. I had a guarantee that all of the bracket characters would be both available and easily distinguishable in any typeface I used.
I don't think the "distinguishable" part matters that much; if the different variants of the same type of bracket look the same, we're just back to what we see now. However, it's a problem if they're just displayed as "unknown character" markers, and you can't tell which kind they are, nor whether they're opening or closing. I suspect "rainbow parentheses" in editors is probably going to be a better approach.