Ligature for `::`? about juliamono HOT 7 CLOSED

I like Double colon: it describes what it is, it's always correct. On the other hand Type annotation and similar describe what it means in a specific context, so it's wrong in other contexts (for example in C++ :: is used to separate scopes). JuliaMono is a great monospace font, not just a Julia font!

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Perhaps Double colon would be better, being a little more explicit? "Type" is a little ambiguous in this context... 😄 And I suppose it's not technically a ligature either, being neither a single glyph nor part of the Typography panel's Ligature section... But Type annotation might be OK. Type assertion?

I'll welcome more opinions... :)

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Thanks @knuesel!

As an alternative to making it opt-in Stylistic Set, it can be added to the (usually opt-out, on by default) Contextual Alternates.

The advantage is that it doesn't need a name and is more likely to be available (or selectable) in various apps (on macOS: Atom (👍), VSCode (👍), Terminal (👍), Kitty (👍), iTerm (👍), Alacritty (👎).

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Making it an Alternative StylisticSet (which are opt-in) works quite well.

Left: without - Right: with

Perhaps you can think of a better name for it too.

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Oh, very nice! Perhaps "Type Annotation Ligature" is a better name?

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Added in v0.005 as a contextual alternate - see if it works OK - I can remove it if not and think again...

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Works great, thanks so much!

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