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Not really in support for many reasons - but did nobody think about the difficulty of this syntax for even 2 seconds?

A shift + pinky reach for the | followed immediately by a shift + ring finger curl on the same hand? And tbh is is something developers are supposed to use frequently? No thanks.

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You do know that there are different keyboard layouts? `|>` is <AltGr> + <w> + <y> (no reason to lift the right thumb from <AltGr>) for me

Not-inconvenient for some doesn't change inconvenient for most. Most keyboard layouts are based on the US's. I have the same complaint about -> as a method locator like PHP does.

Most keyboard layouts do not have symbols anywhere near the places they are on the US layout. Letters, yes, but not brackets, punctuation etc.

I do this every day in Elixir and it’s never been a problem. You get used to it

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