"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > You even argued against having non-ASCII identifiers: > > > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-May/102936.html > > > > Do you really think that it will help with code readability > > if programmers are allowed to use native scripts for their > > identifiers ? > > Yes, I do - for some groups of users. Of course, code sharing > would be more difficult, and there certainly should be a policy > to use only ASCII in the standard library. But within local > groups, users would find understanding code easier if they > knew what the identifiers actually meant.
According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet), various languages have adopted a transliteration of their language and/or former alphabets into latin. They don't purport to know all of the reasons why, and I'm not going to speculate. Whether or not more languages start using the latin alphabet is a good question. Basing judgement on history and likely globalization, it is only a matter of time before basically all languages have a transcription into the latin alphabet that is taught to all (unless China takes over the world). - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
