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Same.

That said if you try to use that with ordinary parentheses usage it would get ambiguous as soon as you nest them


Wait, no. It makes no sense to use the same characters! An "inverted" opening parens is visually identical to a "normal" closing parens. IMHO the entire proposition is inane.
Exactly.

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