[Python-ideas] Proposal for special name and qualname symbols

[Bernardo Sulzbach]

On 06/08/2016 02:06 PM, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> What about & or ! (the exclamation point)? IIRC the latter isn't used at
> all right now. It also reminds me (for better or worse) of hashbangs.
>
> Only other symbols I can think of would be \ and ` (the backtick), but I'm
> not sure what the heck the idea behind them is (although \ could probably
> be referenced to lambdas or something?), and the backtick is kind of
> unreadable...
>

& is bitwise "and", right? I don't think it should be overloaded.

"Kind of unreadable" is very generous for the backtick. Also, 
backslashes are just not right for this.