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>where the X and Y are either slight italics or underlined or colored to indicate they mean X and Y the variable not X and Y the letters. The IDE would let you just toggle the state between 'variable' and 'literal' with the keyboard.

A big nope from me.

Nicer visual representation is OK.

Changing syntax based on visual attributes it's not.



[Edit: this perhaps should have been "Changing semantics based on visual attributes is not"].




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