Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton nospam.newton at gmx.li
Tue May 23 01:06:56 EDT 2000

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On 21 May 2000 20:33:07 +0100, Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>Tee hee.  I have on my machine built (in the last few days) a Python
>that allows one to use identifiers containing +, *, !, ?, & and @.
>This means you have to space your operators properly, but is IMHO
>quite a cool mod.  I can clean it up and post the patch for that if
>anyone's interested...

Why not add '$' to that to cater to people from the VMS (or even BASIC)
world? SYS$LOGICAL and all that (or whatever they look like).

Or allow $ @ % to appear at the start of an identifier so more Perlers
will be attracted to Python <wink>.

first-paragraph-sort-of-seriously-but-second-one-not-ly yours,
Philip
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Philip Newton <nospam.newton at gmx.li>
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