On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 6:36:06 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:23 am, Rustom Mody wrote: > > Also how is GG deliberately downgrading clear unicode content to be kind > > to obsolete clients at recipient end different from python 2 → 3 making > > breaking changes but not going beyond ASCII lexemes? > > Oh yes, I completely agree, obviously GvR is literally worse than Hitler > because he hasn't added a bunch of Unicode characters with poor support for > input and worse support for output as essential syntactic elements to > Python. > > /s
Gratuitous Godwin acceleration produceth poor sarcasm -- try again And while you are at it try and answer the parallel: Unicode has a major pro and con Pro: Its a superset and enormously richer than ASCII Con: It is costly and implementations are spotty GG downgrades posts containing unicode if it can, thereby increasing reach to recipients with unicode-broken clients Likewise this: > a bunch of Unicode characters with poor support for > input and worse support for output as essential syntactic elements to > Python. sounds like the same logic applied to python JFTR I am not quarrelling with Guido's choices; just pointing out your inconsistencies -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
