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nneonneo on Jan 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust's Ugly Syntax

And that's why we have Unicode!

    Vec⟪u8⟫
    Vec｢u8｣
    Vec⟦u8⟧
    Vec༼u8༽

I'm sure this could open up a whole new frontier of exciting, untypeable language designs. If it works for APL, it should work for any language!

lifthrasiir on Jan 27, 2023 [–]

Or that's why we have digraphs. `Vec[\u8\]` or `Vec[.u8.]` may have worked (these examples are from Fortress [1] and Nim [2]).

[1] https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/samth/fortress-spec.pdf#page...

[2] https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-other...

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