PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Hendrik van Rooyen mail at microcorp.co.za
Wed May 16 02:07:02 EDT 2007


 "Michael Yanowitz" <m.y... at ke.tt.com> wrote;


> Let me guess - the next step will be to restrict the identifiers
> to be at most 6 characters long.

No that is way too restrictive - you need at least eight,
but they must be from the first 80 in the ASCII set - 
i.e. - capitals only 

Caps lock on, start coding - lovely names like
VAR001, VAR002,  etc...

Hey come to think of it - maybe 6 is good enough...

; - )

- Hendrik




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