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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 09:00:20PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 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.

I think you're exaggerating the danger here a tad. Split the community? 
We can barely get the community to grudgingly accept that maybe there's 
a use for Unicode *at all*, let alone use it as syntax :-)


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Steven