Josiah Carlson wrote: > It's also about being able to type names to use them in your own code > (generally very difficult if not impossible for many non-Latin > characters), or even be able to display them. And no number of > guidelines, suggestions, etc., against distributing libraries with > non-Latin identifiers will stop it from happening, and *will* fragment > the community as Anton (and others) have stated.
Ever noticed how the community is already fragmented into people working on project A and people not working on project A? Why shouldn't the people working on project A agree what language they write and spell their identifiers in? And don't forget about project B, C, and all the others. I agree that code posted to comp.lang.python should use english identifiers and that it is worth considering to use english identifiers in open source code that is posted to a public OS project site. Note that I didn't say "ASCII identifiers" but plain english identifiers. All other code should use the language and encoding that fits its environment best. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
