calebegg/pseudocode

An alternate way of viewing code that adds more interesting characters to the mix in the hopes of helping find bugs and making code more skimable.

Non-authoritative list of what this tool does:

• Single character replacements:

  = left arrow ! logical not < left angle bracket (where appropriate)

  right angle bracket

• Two character replacements:

  == = != not equal to <= less than or equal

  = greater than or equal << left shift (tightened)

  right shift && and: /\ (from logic) || or: / -> right arrow \b backspace symbol \t tab symbol \n linebreak symbol \ \ space symbol /* This + all below: Tightened spacing. */ // """ ''' /// () [] {} 0x ::

• Numbers at the end of variable names -> subscripts

• Dumb quotes -> smart/curly quotes

• < and > -> Angle brackets, sometimes

• Longer - (hyphen/minus)

• Shorter _ (underscore)

• Midline-aligned + - = ! * > <

• Moved {, [, ( right.

• Moved }, ], ), ;, ',' left.

pseudocode's Issues

(Feature) Italic text in quotes.

For finding failures in quoting, it may be useful to mark things in quotes in some special way. I'm only mentioning quotes, because it was the first thing that I thought of. Basically, it would turn this:

System.out.println(""Test", he said.");

into this:

System.out.println(“"Test", he said.”);

(obviously with proper fonts and stuff).

Don't subscript numbers that are followed by certain characters

Python2.7 has a subscripted '2', which looks gross.

Don't do substitutions inside a quoted string