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by MauranKilom 2238 days ago
Tbh, I mainly shared the example code because I was entertained by the contrast of sophisticated naming and crude approximation. Still, it illustrates that this can come in very handy if used properly.

Of course you can also cause all sorts of mayhem. Even disregarding fun such as GREEK QUESTION MARK looking like a semicolon and zero-width spaces, I probably would not use this feature in enterprise code. Too likely that some tool somewhere (e.g. an alternate compiler?) is KO'd by characters outside of basic ASCII range (which has served us well and will keep doing so).