PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Paul Rubin]

Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com> writes:
> >> Plenty of programming languages already support unicode identifiers,
> > Could you name a few?  Thanks.
>     C#, Java, Ecmascript, Visual Basic.

Java (and C#?) have mandatory declarations so homoglyphic identifiers aren't
nearly as bad a problem.  Ecmascript is a horrible bug-prone language and
we want Python to move away from resembling it, not towards it.  VB: well,
same as Ecmascript, I guess.