En Mon, 14 May 2007 13:30:42 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Although probably not-sufficient to overcome this built-in > bias, it would be interesting if some bi-lingual readers would > raise this issue in some non-english Python discussion > groups to see if the opposition to this idea is as strong > there as it is here.
Survey results from a Spanish-speaking group and a local group from Argentina: Yes: 6 No: 3 Total: 9 Comments summary: - Spanish requires few additional characters in addition to ASCII letters: ñáéíóúü, so there is no great need of Unicode identifiers by Spanish developers. - Python can be embedded and extended using libraries - in those cases, what matters mostly is the domain specific usage. Letting the final users write their scripts/tasklets/etc using domain-specific and language-specific names would be a great thing. - Would be nice if class attribute names could correspond to table column names directly; would be nice to use the Pi greek symbol, by example, in math formulae. - Others raised already seen concerns: about source code legibility; being unable to type identifiers; risk of keywords being translated; that you can't know in advance whether your code will become widely published so best to use English identifiers from start. - Someone proposed using escape sequences of some kind, supported by editor plugins, so there is no need to modify the parser. - Refactoring tools should let you rename foreign identifiers into ASCII only. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
