[lug] Fwd: Examining controversy and common sense in programming language syntax

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:25:00 -0600
Davide Del Vento wrote:

> In "Sanity vs. Invisible Markings
> <https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-2707ex324ed5x014460&>"
> in *ACM Queue*, *George Neville-Neil* (a.k.a. Kode Vicious) addresses a
> reader's question about white space in Python.

"In point of fact, it would be better to pick a single character that is
not a tab and not a space and not normally used in a program—for example,
Unicode code point U+1F4A9 ..."

Great, now people are going to start using that in variable names. Perhaps
unironically?

He likes syntax highlighting too. I always turn it off, as it bugs the U+1F4A9
out of me.

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