On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 at 22:47, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@vub.be> wrote: > > > > Op 16/10/2022 om 13:03 schreef Chris Angelico: > > On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 at 21:19, Antoon Pardon<antoon.par...@vub.be> wrote: > > > >> My idea would be to reserve different unicode blocks for the keywords > >> and the identifiers. e.g. We could reserve the mathematical alphanumeric > >> block for keywords and all other letters and numbers for identifiers. > >> Doing so would allow extenting the keywords without breaking programs > >> that already use that combination as an identifier. > > Python currently defines identifiers as follows: > > https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers > > > > Briefly, what it means is that (aside from some backward compatibility > > special cases) an identifier contains letters, numbers, and connector > > punctuation, and must not start with a number. It's not by blocks, > > it's by types. > > > > It's way WAY too late to change what's allowed for identifiers, as you > > will potentially be breaking programs that use the current rules. > > So? Python has broken backward compatibility before. The cost could > be acceptable. How many programs do you estimated use the mathematical > alphanumeric block for an identifier at this moment?
> Why would I need good luck? I expressed an idea and you didn't like it. > That won't affect my life in a meaningful way. Well, with that attitude, it's not going to affect anyone else's life either, so go ahead, carry on. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
