On 23 June 2014 10:30, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
> Hm. What's wrong with rejecting bad ideas?

While I agree it's a bad idea to use symbols that can't be readily
typed as part of the language syntax, I think Terry's broader point
that anything which *can* be implemented outside the core usually
*should* be implemented outside the core (at least as a
proof-of-concept) is a good one.