Kendall Clark wrote: > I don't consider using ? to signal boolean > returning functions or methods to be random.
Picking those two characters out of all the punctuation symbols to be legal in identifiers is a fairly arbitrary choice, given that most natural languages only use letters in their words. > And "-" has always seemed > a better word separator (or at least as good) as "_". I wouldn't object to "-" if it weren't already taken for subtraction, since hyphenation of words is a well-established practice. And "_" is the next best thing to "-". -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
