Language change and code breaks

[Steve Holden]

"Bruce Sass" <bsass at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote in message
news:mailman.996173519.19391.python-list at python.org...
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 maxx at easynews.com wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 05:29:41 GMT, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
wrote:
> <...>
> > >The number of symbols available is so much larger than the number of
> > >distinct names you need that the reduction is irrelevant.
> >
> > Plus, the day that symbols become so numerous in code that the usage of
case is
> > necessary to differentiate them, then software development will have
become
> > truly too complex for mortals such as myseld.
>
> Sure, and we can generate as many identifiers as we need with only 2
> symbols, "0" and "1".
>
You had *two* symbols? You were lucky ...

Of course you can get as many different identifiers as you want just using
*one* symbol, but it might detract somewhat from readability.

regards
 Steve

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