[Python-3000] PEP 3131 - the details
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Tue May 22 00:31:36 CEST 2007
> How about this: *require* the LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK after
> every sequence of RTL characters outside a string or
> comment; and *forbid* all other Cf characters.
>
> This is just as conservative, but supports RTL-language
> identifiers better. It prevents all the "stupid bidi tricks"
> I know of (abc = cba and so forth).
This is indeed more conservative, and I could happily put it
in the PEP, but again I prefer not to do so without an explicit
confirmation from a user of such a language that this actually
helps anything.
tomer's comment (that you need the mark even inside an identifier)
has puzzled me.
Regards,
Martin
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