US English is too broad. I propose everybody talk like in the "Dallas" TV series and wear mandatory cowboy hats.
(Or was this mail just a dream?) Stephan 2017-11-23 15:29 GMT+01:00 Carl Smith <carl.in...@gmail.com>: > Can't we just tell everyone to speak US English, and go back to ASCII? It > would be a less painful migration. > > -- Carl Smith > carl.in...@gmail.com > > On 23 November 2017 at 14:16, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Well, then there is some bitter irony in this, so it allows pretty >> > much everything, >> > but does not allow me to beautify code with hyphens. >> > I can fully understand the wish to use non-latin scripts in strings or >> comments. >> > As for identifiers, IMO, apart from latin letters and underscore, the >> > first unicode candidate >> > I would add is U+2010. And probably the LAST one I would add. >> > >> >> Fortunately for the world, you're not the one who decided which >> characters were permitted in Python identifiers. The ability to use >> non-English words for function/variable names is of huge value; the >> ability to use a hyphen is of some value, but not nearly as much. >> >> Can this thread move to python-list? Or, better, to >> python-rants-about-unicode-list, to which I don't subscribe? >> >> ChrisA >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list >> Python-ideas@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > >
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