Heribert Schütz

> Should reference types be nominal or should they be just aliases to numbers? Nominal. For these reasons: - Even though the references are technically numbers, you probably don't want...

Thanks for your answer! Of course it is your language and therefore your design decisions, but to me the restriction feels a bit arbitrary. With the same justification one could...

> It would probably be better if Mastodon used ` ` aka `U+00A0` instead to indicate that these spaces are significant. This would avoid issues with sanitizers + minifiers collapsing posts....