This could be a silly question, but why this -> is accepted and → does not?
The latter does really help me in the readability of my code and, in my case, is obtained with alt + 26. Is there a future development on it?
Regards
You can already have it, if you setup the proper font + IDE with JuliaMOno combo (or whatever lets you have code ligatures).
Most people will use the Julia VSCode plugin and that will work.
As for why it doesn’t work today, I think that nobody has bothered to implement it yet, but I you are free to look at previous parser PRs.
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One example of a previous discussion: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/11223
For a good list of fonts that support these replacements (aka “ligatures”), visit https://devfonts.gafi.dev – Julia syntax is available!. Note that fonts don’t replace two characters (- and >) with some suitable single Unicode character (eg →, U2192), but rather with two non-Unicode glyphs that give you what looks like a wide arrow.
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