On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 22:53, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <pointede...@web.de> wrote: >> It simply isn't an issue. > > Apparently it is *has not been* an issue for *you* *yet*. There are > languages (like Python) that are compiled just-in-time. Besides, neither an > IDE nor a compiler can (always) recognize that foo["b0r"] is not foo["bOr"] > (which really is not a far-fetched example as the O and zero keys are > adjacent to each other on in keyboard layouts). You do not want such an > ambiguity to bite you later. >
I do agree that in a weakly-typed language such as python one might conceivably try to use an undeclared variable and the IDE and compiler won't catch that. However 0 vs. O would more likely be 0 vs. o as one would really have to mess up bad to not only press the wrong key but also hit shift at the same time. 0 and o are no harder to distinguish in a VWF than in a FWF. For that matter, why is it assumed that fixed-width fonts by nature better distinguish 0 from O, or any other ambiguous characters? My current system (Kubuntu 11.04, default VWF font in Firefox whatever it may be) distinguished 0 from O just fine. Also I/1 and l/1 are easy to distinguish, but I agree that I/l are not. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
