What I did was not even at syntax level. These are lexems that were changed, a level below syntax. When you use C, you can write "~ x" and you can also write "

What I did was not even at syntax level. These are lexems that were changed, a level below syntax. When you use C, you can write "~ x" and you can also write "??- x" [1], a slightly more verbose version of the same thing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs#C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs#C I did exactly the same - I changed lexical structure of language, mainitaining the syntax, most of it. Programmers, just like most other people, read words as a whole entities, quite like hierogliphics [2]. If we talk about "people are not computers" we should recognize that and allow for longer (yet atomic) lexical structure of the same language. [2] https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/ https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/