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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Agreed with Guido. The proposed idea looks terribly silly (I was 
actually wondering whether the post was serious or not).

Regards

Antoine.


Le 23/06/2014 00:00, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Nick Coghlan
> <ncoghlan at gmail.com
> <mailto:ncoghlan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 23 June 2014 10:30, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org
>     <mailto: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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