[Python-ideas] .pyu nicode syntax symbols (was Re: Empty set, Empty dict)

[Nick Coghlan]

On 23 June 2014 10:30, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Hm. What's wrong with rejecting bad ideas?

While I agree it's a bad idea to use symbols that can't be readily
typed as part of the language syntax, I think Terry's broader point
that anything which *can* be implemented outside the core usually
*should* be implemented outside the core (at least as a
proof-of-concept) is a good one.

Hy shows it is possible to implement a Lisp on top of the CPython
runtime, so folks should certainly be capable of implementing a
Python-with-Unicode-symbols on top of existing Python runtimes without
needing the blessing of the core development team.

Cheers,
Nick.

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