[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131

[Nick Coghlan]

Mike Klaas wrote:
> On 25-May-07, at 6:03 AM, Steve Howell wrote:
> 
>> We're just disagreeing about whether the Dutch tax law
>> programmer has to uglify his environment with an alias
>> of Python to "python3.0 -liberal_unicode," or whether
>> the American programmer in an enterprisy environment
>> has to uglify his environment with an alias of Python
>> to "python3.0 -parochial" to mollify his security
>> auditors.
> 
> Surely if such mollification were necessary, -parochial would be  
> routinely used for (most much enterprise-y) java?  I have never seen  
> any such thing done, though my experience is perhaps not universal.

Java (and C#) are statically typed - a simple assignment statement can't 
introduce a new variable, so the issue of deceptive assignment provides 
far less opportunity for mischief.

A Java or C# equivalent of KPY's deceptive code would either fail to 
compile with an unrecognised identifier error when it encountered the 
undeclared 'allow-with-Cyrillic-a' identifier (or else it have an extra 
apparently redundant identifier declaration).

Cheers,
Nick.

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