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by omoikane 630 days ago
This reminds me of Bjarne Stroustrup's proposal on overloading whitespace, and around page 4 he suggested using the full Unicode character set:

https://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf

This was an April Fool's joke:

https://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace.html

I am not sure about the parent comment.

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> I am not sure about the parent comment.

Starting with "a modest proposal" is a clear sign it is satire.