Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 07:14:23PM -0400, John Roth wrote:
> 3. There must be a complete set of syntax words in each
> supported language. That is, words such as 'and', 'or', 'if', 'else'
> All such syntax words in a particular module must come from the
> same language.

   Who will maintain those "complete sets"? Core team? They have enough
other things to do.

> 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.

Oleg.
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