Brandon Mintern wrote:
Having used Lisp before Python, I'm used to just about any character being allowed in identifier names. The more characters available, the more expressive the names can be, and I think it could only help things.
3.0 uses the standard Unicode syntax for identifiers: " identifier ::= id_start id_continue* id_start ::= <all characters in general categories Lu, Ll, Lt, Lm, Lo, Nl, the underscore, and characters with the Other_ID_Start property> id_continue ::= <all characters in id_start, plus characters in the categories Mn, Mc, Nd, Pc and others with the Other_ID_Continue property> " This is 10s of thousands of characters ;-) -- but no symbols. " The Unicode category codes mentioned above stand for: Lu - uppercase letters Ll - lowercase letters Lt - titlecase letters Lm - modifier letters Lo - other letters Nl - letter numbers Mn - nonspacing marks Mc - spacing combining marks Nd - decimal numbers Pc - connector punctuations All identifiers are converted into the normal form NFC while parsing; comparison of identifiers is based on NFC. " I think we should stick with this international cross-language standard. tjr