Proposal: allow '?' and '!' in identifiers

[jcm]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
> Nathaniel Gray wrote:

>> Why not be hardcore and allow both?

> Because using a suffixed p to indicate predicates, if that is your
> liking, is already supported by the language.  Allowing ? in identifiers
> is not, and would require all sorts of weird parser logic to allow it in
> identifiers but not break backward compatibility.  It is simply not
> worth it.

I understand that you dislike the idea of allowing '?' in identifiers.
But it would not necessarily require "all sorts of weird parser
logic".  I expect it's a simple change to the lexer.  I haven't looked
at the Python codebase, so I don't know for sure.  But I've written
enough lexers and parsers to know what should be easy or difficult.