Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 08:00:53AM -0400, John Roth wrote:
> > > 4. All syntax words are preceeded by a special character, which
> > > is not presented to the viewer by Python 3.0 aware tools. Instead,
> > > the special character is used to pick them out and highlight them.
> > > The reason for this is that the vocabulary of syntax words can then
> > > be expanded without impacting existing programs - they are
> > > effectively from a different name space.
> >
> >    Why do you want to make perl of python? If you want perl just go
> and use
> > perl, no problem.
> 
> I wasn't intending to do that. Perl's 'funny characters' solve one
> significant problem that comes up every time someone suggests
> adding a character syntax word to python: breaking existing code.

   In my opinion, the cure is worse than the disease.

Oleg.
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