Proposal: allow '?' and '!' in identifiers
Tim Rowe
digitig at cix.co.uk
Tue Mar 6 13:17:00 EST 2001
In article <96sp4s$ni7$1 at news.mathworks.com>, jmarshal at mathworks.com
(Joshua Marshall) wrote:
> Introducing some strange behavior with '!' may very well not be worth
> it. However, while adding '?' as a legal identifier character does
> not make the Python more expressive, it can make Python programs more
> self-documenting. The convention of ending predicate function names
> with '?' is useful, in my opinion.
Just end it with _p and everyone will think you're a converted Lisp
hacker!
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