PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Antoon Pardon apardon at forel.vub.ac.be
Tue May 15 03:23:34 EDT 2007


On 2007-05-15, Paul Rubin <http> wrote:
> Stefan Behnel <stefan.behnel-n05pAM at web.de> writes:
>> But then, where's the problem? Just stick to accepting only patches that are
>> plain ASCII *for your particular project*. 
>
> There is no feature that has ever been proposed for Python, that cannot
> be supported with this argument.  If you don't like having a "go to"
> statement added to Python, where's the problem?  Just don't use it in
> your particular project.

There is no feature that has ever been propose that cannot be rejected
by the opposite argument: I don't want to be bothered with something
like this and if it is introduced sooner or later I will.

And in my experience this argument is used a lot more than the first.

-- 
Antoon Pardon



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