Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Not in the literal sense: you certainly want to allow > "latin" digits in, say, a cyrillic identifier.
Yes, by "alphabet" I really only meant the letters, although you might want to apply the same idea to clusters of digits within an identifier, depending on how potentially confusable the various sets of digits are -- I'm not familiar enough with alternative digit sets to know whether that would be a problem. > Just because > you *can* come up with look-alike identifiers doesn't > mean that people will use them, or that they will mistake > the scripts (except for deliberately doing so, of > course). I still think this is a much worse potential problem than that of "l" vs "1", etc. It's reasonable to adopt the practice of never using "l" as a single letter identifier, for example. But it would be unreasonable to ban the use of "E" as an identifier on the grounds that someone somewhere might confuse it with a capital epsilon. An alternative would be to identify such confusable letters in the various alphabets and define them to be equivalent. And beyond the issue of alphabets there's also the question of whether accented characters should be considered distinct. I can see quite a few holy flame wars erupting over that... -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
