[Python-ideas] Allow using symbols from Unicode block "Superscripts and Subscripts" in identifiers

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> One of the frustrations on this list is how often people hold new
> proposals to higher standard than existing features. ...
>
> Holding this proposal up to an impossible standard which plain ASCII
> identifiers don't even meet is simply not cricket.
>
> Thank you all for letting me get that off my chest, and apologies to Ron
> for singling him out.

A fair point in this case, and yet there is such a thing as the
grandfather clause. Adding something to the language has a much higher
bar than merely retaining something (because *removing* something from
the language has an even higher bar), so a proposal can't simply say
"It's no worse than what we have already" to get acceptance.
Impossible standard? A bit unfair. Higher than existing features?
Quite possibly has its place.

ChrisA