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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

This particular proposal sounds to me like something that shouldn't be
implemented at all. We don't need another split in the community over how
to spell operators.


> Hy shows it is possible to implement a Lisp on top of the CPython
> runtime,


It wasn't proposed as a serious feature on python-ideas.


> 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.


Terry *is* asking for a blessing of the .pyu extension by the core team.
(Although it seems he wouldn't be too upset if he didn't get it. :-)

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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