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jeberlelast Tuesday at 4:17 PM1 replyview on HN

Cat constructed from block: Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, U+1400 to U+167F

  U+14DA  ᓚ CANADIAN SYLLABICS LA
  U+160F  ᘏ CANADIAN SYLLABICS CARRIER YO
  U+15E2  ᗢ CANADIAN SYLLABICS CARRIER TTU
https://unicode.scarfboy.com/?s=%E1%93%9A%E1%98%8F%E1%97%A2

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Rendellolast Tuesday at 7:29 PM

Famously used to emulate generics before Go had them:

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

> type ImmutableTreeListᐸElementTᐳ struct { ... }

> 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.