<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED],,,.co.za> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [I fixed the broken attribution in your quote] > Sorry about that - I deliberately fudge email addys... > First "while" is a keyword and will remain "while" so > that has nothing to do with anything. I think this cuts right down to why I oppose the PEP. It is not so much for technical reasons as for aesthetic ones - I find reading a mix of languages horrible, and I am kind of surprised by the strength of my own reaction. If I try to analyse my feelings, I think that really the PEP does not go far enough, in a sense, and from memory it seems to me that only E Brunel, R Fleschenberg and to a lesser extent the Martellibot seem to somehow think in a similar way as I do, but I seem to have an extreme case of the disease... And the summaries of reasons for and against have left out objections based on this feeling of ugliness of mixed language. Interestingly, the people who seem to think a bit like that all seem to be non native English speakers who are fluent in English. While the support seems to come from people whose English is perfectly adequate, but who are unsure to the extent that they apologise for their "bad" English. Is this a pattern that you have identified? - I don't know. I still don't like the thought of the horrible mix of "foreign" identifiers and English keywords, coupled with the English sentence construction. And that, in a nutshell, is the main reason for my rather vehement opposition to this PEP. The other stuff about sharing and my inability to even type the OP's name correctly with the umlaut is kind of secondary to this feeling of revulsion. "Beautiful is better than ugly" - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list