On 24/11/2017 11:56, Stefan Ram wrote:
Karsten Hilbert <karsten.hilb...@gmx.net> writes:
However, the main point has been answered - Python already
does what is talked about. End of story.
Java allowed Unicode in identifiers right from the get-go
(1995). I.e., one can write an assignment statement such as
π = 3.141;
That's great. But how do I type it on my keyboard? How do I view someone
else's code on my crappy ASCII text editor?
. The Java community decided to ignore this and only use
latin letters and arabic digits (i.e., »pi1«) and English
words, to support the (international) exchange of code.
(However, for a beginner's tutorial in German, I might use
identifiers based on German words.)
German isn't very challenging apart from a couple of umlauts and that
funny symbol for ss that looks like a Greek beta. And perhaps in
Germany, keyboards will already take care of those.
But which keyboards will have π [copied from the one above!]?
Apart perhaps from the ones in Greece, where π might already be heavily
used in the same way we use 'p'.
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