[Python-Dev] Extend reST spec to allow automatic recognition of identifiers in comments?

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

-On [20080105 22:44], Jameson Chema Quinn (jquinn at cs.oberlin.edu) wrote:
>The "syntax" of what goes inside these is very loose.
>identifier_list ::= [<initial_word>]<opening_symbol> <content_word>
>{<separator_symbol> <content_word>} <closing symbol>
>, with no whitespace after initial_word, and where separator_symbol is the set
>of symbols ".,<>{}[]+-*^%=|/()[]{}" MINUS closing_symbol. content_word could
>maybe be a quoted string, too.
>In the "function name", no whitespace
>is allowed, but the symbols ".,*^=><-" are. Thus::

Given the fact Python 3k will use unicode natively for strings and, IIRC,
UTF-8 as standard encoding for Python files, have you thought about the
half-width and full-width characters like the ones you describe above? 「」
are, for example, very common in Japanese where English would use quotes.

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