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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

OCaml’s old m17n compiler plugin solved this by requiring you pick one block per ‘word’ & you can only switch to another block if separated by an underscore. As such you can do print_แมว but you couldn’t do pℝint_c∀t. This is a totally reasonable solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That's pretty cool