[Python-3000] Unicode identifiers (Was: sets in P3K?)

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/28/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > I want good Unicode support for string literals and comments.
> > Everything else in the language ought to be ASCII.
>
> Does that include restricting identifiers to ASCII as well?

Yes, that's my intent.

> I was hoping to propose a PEP on non-ASCII identifiers some
> day; that would (of course) include a requirement that the
> standard library would always be restricted to ASCII-only
> identifiers as a style-guide.

IMO communication about code becomes much more cumbersome if there are
non-ASCII letters in identifiers, and the rules about what's a letter,
what's a digit, and what separates two identifiers become murky.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)