On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 8:42 AM Kyle Stanley <aeros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 5:04 PM <pt...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > >> >> >> def 𝚑𝓮𝖑𝒍𝑜(): >> > [... Python code it's easy to believe isn't grammatical ...] > return ₛ >> > > 0_o color me impressed, I did not think that would be legal syntax. Would > be interesting to include in a textbook, if for nothing else other than to > academically demonstrate that it is possible, as I suspect many are not > aware. > I'm afraid the best Paul, Alex, Anna and I can hope to do is bring it to the attention of readers of Python in a Nutshell's fourth edition (on current plans, hitting the shelves about the same time as 3.11, please tell your friends ;-) ). Sadly, I'm not aware of any academic classes that use the Nutshell as a course text, so it seems unlikely to gain the attention of academic communities. Given the wider reach of this list, however, one might hope that by the time the next edition comes out this will be old news due to the publication of blogs and the like. With luck, a small fraction of the programming community will become better-informed about Unicode and the design or programming languages. It's interesting that the egalitarian wish to allow use of native "alphabetics" has turned out to be such a viper's nest. Particular thanks to Stephen J. Turnbull for his thoughtful and well-informed contribution above. Kind regards, Steve
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