On Apr 10, 2006, at 8:17 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: > Georg Brandl wrote: > >>> PS--I'd also like "?", "!", and "-" to be legal characters in >>> function, method, and variable names, but I won't push my luck -- >>> and >>> I seem to remember Guido saying that would never happen, at some >>> point back in the day. > > And I hope he never changes his mind! Identifiers > with random punctuation in them look ugly to me.
Hmm. Tastes vary, obviously. I don't consider using ? to signal boolean returning functions or methods to be random. And "-" has always seemed a better word separator (or at least as good) as "_". But whatever. I happily accept the limitations. :> Cheers, Kendall _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
