DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language
DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language
Posted May 6, 2022 17:26 UTC (Fri) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)In reply to: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language by farnz
Parent article: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language
ampersand is the HTML/XML metacharacter for starting an entity, and although the standard says that entity references should include a final semicolon, HTML-handling software is more tolerant of the missing semicolon than is entirely ideal.
So it appears that the sequence &real gets overgenerously interpreted as an HTML entity equivalent to Unicode codepoint U+211C BLACK-LETTER CAPITAL R from the Letterlike Symbols block of the Mathematical Symbols, which has an alias name of "Real part".
