Rustom Mody wrote: > Just noticed a small thing in which python does a bit better than haskell: > $ ghci > let (fine, fine) = (1,2) > Prelude> (fine, fine) > (1,2) > Prelude> > > In case its not apparent, the fi in the first fine is a ligature. > > Python just barfs:
Not Python 3: Python 3.3.2+ (default, Feb 28 2014, 00:52:16) [GCC 4.8.1] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> (fine, fine) = (1,2) >>> (fine, fine) (2, 2) No copy-and-paste errors involved: >>> eval("\ufb01ne") 2 >>> eval(b"fine".decode("ascii")) 2 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list