[Python-ideas] Allow using symbols from Unicode block "Superscripts and Subscripts" in identifiers
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat May 3 08:38:21 CEST 2014
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Particularly for mathematically-focused code, I think it would be useful
> to be able to use identifiers like (say) σ² for variance,
Having σ² be a variable name could be confusing. To a
mathematician, it's not a distinct variable, it's
just σ ** 2.
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Greg
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