On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 05:53:45 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > And if we had hyphen '‐' distinguished from minus '-' then we could have > lispish names like call‐with‐current‐continuation properly spelt. And > then generations of programmers will thank us for increasing their > debugging overtime!!
:-) Full Unicode support in a language is, alas, a double-edged sword. While it has advantages, it also has disadvantages. py> А = 1 py> A = А + 1 py> assert A == А Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AssertionError While I can see the appeal of certain Unicode symbols, I really wouldn't like to have to deal with code that looks like this: x∫2*y+∬e**3∺z≹(x+1)≽y⋝w If I wanted line-noise, I know where to get Perl :-) -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
