[Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicitconversions).

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Oct 26 02:51:40 CEST 2005


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> For window.draw, people will readily understand that
> they are supposed to use Latin letters. More generally, they will know
> what script to use just from looking at the identifier.

Would it help if an identifier were required to be
made up of letters from the same alphabet, e.g. all
Latin or all Greek or all Cyrillic, but not a mixture.
Then you'd get an immediate error if you accidentally
slipped in a letter from the wrong alphabet.

Greg



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