PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Chuck Rhode]

Grant Edwards wrote this on Mon, 14 May 2007 19:22:16 +0000.  My reply
is below.

>> Of course. If they're any longer than that then you can't fit an
>> entire identifier into a 36-bit CDC 6600 machine register so you
>> can do a compare with a single machine instruction.

While skimming this discussion, I, too, was suffering flashbacks to
CDC's 6-bit Hollerith code.

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