On 2/1/2018 12:05 AM, David Mertz wrote:
So overall I do like Nick's approach better than my initial suggestion or Eric's one that is similar to mine.
Oops, I'd forgotten that you (David) had proposed a single character in your original email. I'm not trying to claim the idea! The important part is that it's a single character, not what that character is, so I'll refer to it as "David's suggestion"!
FWIW, PEP 378 also summarizes some of the discussion we're rehashing, except Nick's proposal (the chosen one) was simpler, and mine slightly more complex, but still not generalized to solve the problem being discussed here. Nine years on it might be worth doing some research to see if other languages have done anything since the PEP was written. For the languages that support picture-style formatting, I suspect not, but maybe there's something to learn from newer languages?
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