Christoph Zwerschke wrote: > On the page http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3%2e0Suggestions > I noticed an interesting suggestion: > > "These operators ≤ ≥ ≠ should be added to the language having the > following meaning: > > <= >= != > > this should improve readibility (and make language more accessible to > beginners). > > This should be an evolution similar to the digraphe and trigraph > (digramme et trigramme) from C and C++ languages." > > How do people on this group feel about this suggestion? > > The symbols above are not even latin-1, you need utf-8. > > (There are not many usefuls symbols in latin-1. Maybe one could use × > for cartesian products...) > > And while they are better readable, they are not better typable (at > least with most current editors). > > Is this idea absurd or will one day our children think that restricting > to 7-bit ascii was absurd? > > Are there similar attempts in other languages? I can only think of APL, > but that was a long time ago. > > Once you open your mind for using non-ascii symbols, I'm sure one can > find a bunch of useful applications. Variable names could be allowed to > be non-ascii, as in XML. Think class names in Arabian... Or you could > use Greek letters if you run out of one-letter variable names, just as > Mathematicians do. Would this be desirable or rather a horror scenario? > Opinions? > > -- Christoph
I can't find "≤, ≥, or ≠" on my keyboard. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
