[Python-3000] symbols?

[Kendall Clark]

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On Apr 10, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:16 -0400, Kendall Clark wrote:
>
>> I don't know if the Ruby syntax for symbols, :foo, will work in
>> Python (though I think visually it's a good thing), but it would be
>> really nice to have symbols with *some* syntax in Python 3000.
>
> To be fair, I think Ruby stole the idea and syntax from Lisp.  It's an
> interesting idea, but I'd like to understand exactly what you mean  
> by "a
> Python symbol".  Can you give more detail about your idea, perhaps  
> as a
> pseudo-PEP?

I was afraid someone was going to ask that... :>

FWIW, I didn't mean to suggest Ruby originated anything about  
symbols, just that as a close language cousin, the Ruby syntax for  
symbols made good sense to me for Py3K.

But there are also some interesting diffs between Common Lisp,  
Scheme, and Ruby re: symbols.

I'll try to send something pseudo-PEPish about this later today,  
after I've done a bit more work to get all the facts straight.

Cheers,
Kendall


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