On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 4:12 PM Jim Baker <jim.baker@python.org> wrote:

in the same way that we don't use l (that's the lower-case letter L if you're not reading this email with the numeric codepoints) as a variable

Speaking of grit on one's screen, I first thought that was a lowercase "i" because I had actual light-colored grit on my screen in precisely the exact place to make the lowercase L look like a lowercase i until I wiped it off with my finger.

Which goes to show that we should not underestimate the grit-on-screen concern. It's real, and it's a huge -1 against backticks for any purpose. I'm +0 on the overall concept here, but please say no to backticks.