P*rl in Latin, whither Python?

[Erik Max Francis]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> Dylan (and LISP-based languages; Ruby, too, I think; I don't know
> about others) let you put all sort of funky characters in identifiers.
	...
> I guess this is what Courageous was perhaps referring to...

Ah, I see, you're probably right.  For a language like Python (as
opposed to LISP where it is definitely appropriate to have more latitude
in the choice of symbols), I think traditional restrictions (alphabetic,
numeric, and underscores, but can't start with numeric) on identifiers
are quite appropriate.

Next thing you know someone will be asking for Python identifiers to be
case insensitive ...

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