Readable Pointers (bollu.github.io)

9 points by bollu 5y ago ↗ HN

4 comments

[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 30.8 ms ] thread

I want to know if there's nicer solutions to the way in which I solved the problem of pointer-reading-fatigue. I'd love to hear war stories and techniques.

milkey_mouse 5y ago ↗

Urbit's IDs are 32-bit numbers represented in a pronounceable format (search for `@p`): https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/hoon/hoon-school/atoms-aura...

Meanwhile in the real world, there's proquints: https://arxiv.org/html/0901.4016

rgoulter 5y ago ↗

Lexical differential highlighting might help for output like this; but I don't know of any editor support. https://wordsandbuttons.online/lexical_differential_highligh...

tom_mellior 5y ago ↗

This is cool, but I'm surprised by the flip in endianness. If pointers agree in their left part when printed in hex, I would also expect them to agree in their left part when printed in words, not in the right part.