On 4/28/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I want good Unicode support for string literals and comments. > > Everything else in the language ought to be ASCII. > > Does that include restricting identifiers to ASCII as well?
Yes, that's my intent. > I was hoping to propose a PEP on non-ASCII identifiers some > day; that would (of course) include a requirement that the > standard library would always be restricted to ASCII-only > identifiers as a style-guide. IMO communication about code becomes much more cumbersome if there are non-ASCII letters in identifiers, and the rules about what's a letter, what's a digit, and what separates two identifiers become murky. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
