On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > No I am not clever/criminal enough to know how to write a text that is > visually > close to > print "Hello World" > but is internally closer to > rm -rf / > > For me this: > >>> Α = 1 >>>> A = 2 >>>> Α + 1 == A > True >>>> > > > is cure enough that I am not amused
To me, the above is a contrived example. And you can contrive examples that are just as confusing while still being ASCII-only, like swimmer/swirnmer in many fonts, or I and l, or any number of other visually-confusing glyphs. I propose that we ban the letters 'r' and 'l' from identifiers, to ensure that people can't mess with themselves. > Specifically as far as I am concerned if python were to throw back say > a ligature in an identifier as a syntax error -- exactly what python2 does -- > I think it would be perfectly fine and a more sane choice The ligature is handled straight-forwardly: it gets decomposed into its component letters. I'm not seeing a problem here. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
