[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri May 25 09:14:55 CEST 2007

However you characterize them, keep in mind that those in the former group are asking for default behaviour that 100% of Python users already use and understand. There's no cost to keeping identifiers ASCII-only because that's what Python already does.

How does adding conditionality make the language easier to understand? It seems you are still asking for a fork in the language. I very much resist to the notion that forking the language is desirable (for whatever reasons).

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.

Regards, Martin

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