You have misread my statements. Carsten Haese schrieb: > There is evidence against your assertions that knowing some English is a > prerequisite for programming
I think it is a prerequesite for "real" programming. Yes, I can imagine that if you use Python as a teaching tool for Chinese 12 year-olds, then it might be nice to be able to spell identifiers with Chinese characters. However, IMO this is such a special use-case that it is justified to require the people who need this to explicitly enable it, by using a patched interpreter or by enabling an interpreter option for example. > in Python and that people won't use non-ASCII > identifiers if they could. I did not assert that at all, where did you get the impression that I do? If I were convinced that noone would use it, I would have not such a big problem with it. I fear that it *will* be used "in the wild" if the PEP in its current form is accepted and that I personally *will* have to deal with such code. -- René -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
