PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-05-14, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> On 2007-05-14, Michael Yanowitz <m.yanowitz at kearfott.com> wrote:
>
>> Let me guess - the next step will be to restrict the identifiers
>> to be at most 6 characters long.
>
> Of course. If they're any longer than that then you can't fit
> an entire identifier into a 26-bit CDC 6600 machine register so
                              36-bit
                              
> you can do a compare with a single machine instruction.

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