On Sun, 13 May 2007 23:55:11 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis a écrit : >> PEP 1 specifies that PEP authors need to collect feedback from the >> community. As the author of PEP 3131, I'd like to encourage comments >> to the PEP included below, either here (comp.lang.python), or to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> In summary, this PEP proposes to allow non-ASCII letters as >> identifiers in Python. If the PEP is accepted, the following >> identifiers would also become valid as class, function, or >> variable names: Löffelstiel, changé, ошибка, or 売り場 >> (hoping that the latter one means "counter"). >> I believe this PEP differs from other Py3k PEPs in that it really >> requires feedback from people with different cultural background >> to evaluate it fully - most other PEPs are culture-neutral. >> So, please provide feedback, e.g. perhaps by answering these >> questions: >> - should non-ASCII identifiers be supported? > > No. > >> why? > > Because it will definitivly make code-sharing impossible. Live with it > or else, but CS is english-speaking, period. I just can't understand > code with spanish or german (two languages I have notions of) > identifiers, so let's not talk about other alphabets... +1 on everything. > NB : I'm *not* a native english speaker, I do *not* live in an english > speaking country, ... and so am I (and this happens to be the same country as Bruno's...) > and my mother's language requires non-ascii encoding. ... and so does my wife's (she's Japanese). > And I don't have special sympathy for the USA. And yes, I do write my > code - including comments - in english. Again, +1. Even when writing code that appears to be "private" at some time, one *never* knows what will become of it in the future. If it ever goes public, its chances to evolve - or just to be maintained - are far bigger if it's written all in english. -- python -c "print ''.join([chr(154 - ord(c)) for c in 'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17l8(%,5.Z*(93-965$l7+-'])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list