> On 21 May 2020, at 16:18, Alex Hall <alex.moj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What I mean is that they would only have seen ASCII symbols used for Python > syntax i.e. not counting the contents of strings.
and identifiers > Currently that's the experience of 100% of all Python coders. That percentage > will drop a little if and when this feature is announced, but not much, and > from there it can only decrease gradually. > > Again, if I saw a unicode arrow used as syntax on GitHub or something in the > wild right now, I would think it's an error, which incidentally would be > correct. Wouldn't you? yes, like I would have taken a walrus operator for a syntax error just a couple years ago maybe; things change.. > That will be the experience of anyone who sees this before learning about it, > and that will always include some beginners. the only thing that beginners know is: they don’t know much, I don’t see them necessarily jumping to conclusions _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/C43VRRRPW6IYRWPSE5OJOLC5KHODGVME/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
