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

[BartC]

On 03/07/2016 12:01, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> 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.

I think it's one of those languages that has already dispensed with most 
syntax anyway. Including distinctions between names and symbols.

Some people think that extra syntax rules including enforcing such 
distinctions and having restrictions can improve readability. Otherwise 
you can be looking at:

   a b c d e f g h

(not Scheme) and wondering which are names and which are operators.

-- 
Bartc