[Python-ideas] float('∞')=float('inf')

[Philipp A.]

2013/7/14 Joshua Landau <joshua at landau.ws>

> I didn't say it was insane. But I do dislike it. Code should be quick
> for the majority of people (of the same language) to edit; unicode
> symbols ruin that barrier.
>

when applied to the oly way to do something: yes. in this case: not in the
slightest.

float('inf') still works, so if your keyboard layout/compose key doesn’t
support ∞, you just use the ascii variant.

comparing it to naming a variable á or µ or something isn’t valid at all.
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