On 25-03-14 23:47, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 03/25/2014 12:29 PM, Mark H Harris wrote: >> On 3/25/14 2:24 PM, MRAB wrote: >>> It's explained in PEP 3131. >>> >>> Basically, a name should to start with a letter (this has been extended >>> to include Chinese characters, etc) or an underscore. >>> >>> λ is a classified as Lowercase_Letter. >>> >>> √ is classified as Math_Symbol. >> >> Thanks much! I'll note that for improvements. Any unicode symbol >> (that is not a number) should be allowed as an >> identifier. > > No, it shouldn't. Doing so would mean we could not use √ as the > square root operator in the future.
And what advantage would that bring over just using it as a function? -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
