Well, I finally ran into a Python Unicode problem, sort of

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Sun Jul 3 07:22:34 EDT 2016


Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus at gmx.de>:

> Am 03.07.16 um 13:01 schrieb Marko Rauhamaa:
>> Alain Ketterlin <alain at universite-de-strasbourg.fr.invalid>:
>>
>>> It would be very confusing to have a variable named ∇f, as confusing
>>> as naming a variable a+b or √x.
>>
>> Scheme allows *any* characters whatsoever in identifiers.
>
> Parentheses?

Yes.

Hint: Python allows *any* characters whatsoever in strings.


Marko



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