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someplaceguyyesterday at 5:46 PM1 replyview on HN

> using the appropriate unicode characters might make it easier to read

It's probably also a great way to introduce almost undetectable security vulnerabilities by using Unicode characters that look similar to each other but in fact are different.


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OkayPhysicistyesterday at 6:05 PM

This would cause your compilation to fail, unless you were deliberately declaring and using near identical symbols. Which would violate the whole "Code is meant to be easily read by humans" thing.

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