On 21 May 2020, at 16:18, Alex Hall
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