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Comment by chx

4 years ago

There was a reddit thread about crafty Unicode usage in programming a few years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...

> If you look closely, those aren't angle brackets, they're characters from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which are allowed in Go identifiers. From Go's perspective, that's just one long identifier.

The thread goes downhill fast from there to the point where

> I once wrote a short Swift program with every identifier a different length chain of 0-width spaces.