[Python-3000] symbols?

[Greg Ewing]

Kendall Clark wrote:

> I don't consider using ? to signal  boolean 
> returning functions or methods to be random.

Picking those two characters out of all the punctuation
symbols to be legal in identifiers is a fairly arbitrary
choice, given that most natural languages only use
letters in their words.

> And "-" has  always seemed 
> a better word separator (or at least as good) as "_".

I wouldn't object to "-" if it weren't already taken
for subtraction, since hyphenation of words is a
well-established practice. And "_" is the next
best thing to "-".

--
Greg