MRAB wrote:
If you're not limited to ASCII then there's '←' (U+2190, 'LEFTWARDS ARROW'). It's a little too late now, though.
Well, if you are old enough, that was the ASCII graphic for the character now printed as '_' (ASCII), and SAIL used it for assignment statements, causing much consternation when our source code displayed funny on new-fangled terminals. So, just an unfortunate setting on the time machine is the basic flaw.
--Scott David Daniels @Acm.Org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
