Greg Ewing wrote: > Would it help if an identifier were required to be > made up of letters from the same alphabet, e.g. all > Latin or all Greek or all Cyrillic, but not a mixture. > Then you'd get an immediate error if you accidentally > slipped in a letter from the wrong alphabet.
Not in the literal sense: you certainly want to allow "latin" digits in, say, a cyrillic identifier.See http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/ for what the Unicode consortium recommends to do. In addition to the strict specification, they envision usage guidelines. This seems Pythonic: just because you could potentially shoot yourself in the foot doesn't mean it should be banned from the language. IOW, whether it would help largely depends on whether the problem is real in the first place. Just because you *can* come up with look-alike identifiers doesn't mean that people will use them, or that they will mistake the scripts (except for deliberately doing so, of course). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
