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>>davidb+(OP)
Can we please stop with abusing ligatures for things like != into ≠? If you want APL, please use APL and leave the rest of us alone.

!= is two bloody characters not one.

And now people are doing it for 3 characters.

With this kind of thing, you get all the text editing idiocy of combining characters (like emojis) for no benefit at all.

See: Text Editing Hates You Too https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-too/

>>bsder+ww
That's use, not abuse, it's 2 chars, but 1 symbol, so it makes sense to use 1 symbol to represent it. That's the fundamental benefit - matching meaning to representation

Another way to fix the inconsistency is for the language designers to get unstuck from the past and allow literal ≠ in code