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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:10:44 -0600
Subject: Re: unicode as valid naming symbols
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2014-03-31 11:40, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> There is nothing useful
>> you can do with a name that is the U+1F4A9 character that you can't
>> do just as easily with alphanumeric identifiers like pile_of_poo (or
>> =D0=BA=D1=83=D1=87=D0=B0_=D1=84=D0=B5=D0=BA=D0=B0=D0=BB=D0=B8=D0=B9 if o=
ne prefers; that's auto-translated, so don't blame
>> me if it's a poor translation).  The kinds of symbols that we're
>> talking about here aren't part of any writing systems, and so to
>> incorporate them in *names* as if they were is an abuse of Unicode.
>
> It does get more complex though, when you could have things like
>
>  =E9=BB=84=E9=87=91=E5=B1=8E =3D "\U0001f4a9"
>
> Like you, I don't expect to ever encounter something like this in the
> wild, but they are indeed symbols used in a writing system. :-)

That's already a legal identifier, though.  The constituent ideographs
are categorized as "Letter, Other", not symbols.