[Python-3000] PEP 3131 - the details (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue May 22 00:31:36 CEST 2007

How about this: require the LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK after every sequence of RTL characters outside a string or comment; and forbid all other Cf characters.

This is just as conservative, but supports RTL-language identifiers better. It prevents all the "stupid bidi tricks" I know of (abc = cba and so forth).

This is indeed more conservative, and I could happily put it in the PEP, but again I prefer not to do so without an explicit confirmation from a user of such a language that this actually helps anything.

tomer's comment (that you need the mark even inside an identifier) has puzzled me.

Regards, Martin

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