Steven D'Aprano schrieb: > >> A Python >> project that uses Urdu identifiers throughout is just as useless >> to me, from a code-exchange point of view, as one written in Perl. > > That's because you can't read it, not because it uses Unicode. It could > be written entirely in ASCII, and still be unreadable and impossible to > understand.
That is a reason to actively encourage people to write their code in English whereever possible, not one to allow non-ASCII identifiers, which might even do the opposite. >> - Unicode is harder to work with than ASCII in ways that are more >> important >> in code than in human-language text. Humans eyes don't care if two >> visually indistinguishable characters are used interchangeably. >> Interpreters do. There is no doubt that people will accidentally >> introduce mistakes into their code because of this. > > That's no different from typos in ASCII. There's no doubt that we'll give > the same answer we've always given for this problem: unit tests, pylint > and pychecker. Maybe it is no different (actually, I think it is: With ASCII, at least my terminal font can display all the identifiers in a traceback), but why do you want to create *more* possibilities to do mistakes? -- René -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
