On Jul 18, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
I don’t think, it’s a good idea to have German identifiers, since
Haskell’s
keywords are English.
Put it this way: if Haskell's keywords were in German, do you
suppose I would write my Haskell code in anything but English?
Does the fact that 'data' is a Latin word mean that some
fraction of our Haskell identifiers should be in Latin?
Some say ita, some say minime.
On the other hand, I strongly argue that a library
about Bézier curves uses the identifier Bézier, not Bezier. So non-
ASCII
identifiers are useful even if identifiers are in English.
Indeed, you need non-ASCII letters to write English well.
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