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Anyone could explain why *** ligature exists?

>>fomine+(OP)
I'm guessing they'd say "because it looks nicer". I'm not aware of a language that treats it specially.

I do think I've seen it before, I don't think it's a new idea. Probably some typographic tradition from when it was used as a section separator in prose.

>>fomine+(OP)
I’ve not seen it in code, but if you were writing prose you might use it as a section break.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(typography)

Edit: it’s called an Asterism

>>tlh+Z
It's used in Robot Framework code, but that's the only place I can think of.