On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 08:05:40AM +0200, Mikhail V wrote: > Any critics on it? Besides not following the unicode consortium.
Besides the other remarks on "tradition", I think this is where a big problem lies: We should not deviate from a common standard (without very good cause). There are cases where a language does good by deviating from the common standard. There are also cases where it is bad to deviate. Almost all current programming languages understand unicode, for instance: * C: http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/escape * C++: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/escape * JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Grammar_and_types#Using_special_characters_in_strings and that were only the first 3 I tried. They all use `\u` followed by 4 hexadecimal digits. You may not like the current standard. You may think/know/... it to be suboptimal for human comprehension. However, what you are suggesting is a very costly change. A change where --- I believe --- Python should not take the lead, but also should not be afraid to follow if other programming languages start to change. I would suggest that this is a change that might be best proposed to the unicode consortium itself, instead of going to (just) a programming language. It'd be interesting to see whether or not you can convince the unicode consortium that 8 symbols will be enough. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
