> Knowledge only cements itself in the brain when it's regularly referenced.
replyWhile true, this is a molehill, not a mountain, of a bar, like "coding once in a while". I'm doing mostly SRE work, and this syntax has no trouble sticking in my head, and I encounter it pretty regularly? (And heck, most of my work these days is in Python, so there I get the >=,< syntax and yearn for the ~mines~ caret, and I still recognize it?)
If you're actively developing a codebase, this definitely isn't going to be arcane trivia.
I'd argue that complaining about using combined "greater than" and "less than" operators instead of the caret is about the same size of molehill as complaining about the usage of it. Seeing either of them in dependencies at my job would be a pretty mundane event that I wouldn't bother trying to do anything about.
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