[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri May 25 15:55:01 CEST 2007
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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
I think that's a pretty strong reason for making the new, more complex behaviour optional. Thus making it simpler????? The more complex behavior still remains, to fully understand the language, you have to understand that behavior, plus you need to understand that it may sometimes not be present.
It's simpler because any existing automated unit tests will flag non-ascii identifiers without modification. Not only does it prevent surreptitious insertion of malicious code, but existing projects don't have to even waste any brainpower worrying about the implications of Unicode identifiers (because library code typically doesn't care about client code's identifiers, only about the objects the library is asked to deal with).
However, what the option does enable is for a class of users/developers to employ a broader range of characters if they or their teacher or employer choose to do so.
A free-for-all wasn't even proposed for strings and comments in PEP 263
- why shouldn't we be equally conservative when it comes to progressively enabling Unicode identifiers?
Cheers, Nick.
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