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Imagine if instead you could write:

  w̲i̲n̲d̲o̲w̲* window = new w̲i̲n̲d̲o̲w̲(...)
(that's the original ALGOL 60 reference language syntax, for the curious; although it didn't have user-defined types, so it was keywords that were underlined)

Then there's the Smalltalk approach:

  aWindow := Window new ...
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