On 2017-11-24 13:12, bartc wrote: > On 24/11/2017 11:56, Stefan Ram wrote: >> Karsten Hilbert <karsten.hilb...@gmx.net> writes: >>> However, the main point has been answered - Python already >>> does what is talked about. End of story. >> >> Java allowed Unicode in identifiers right from the get-go >> (1995). I.e., one can write an assignment statement such as >> >> π = 3.141; > > That's great. But how do I type it on my keyboard? How do I view someone > else's code on my crappy ASCII text editor?
ASCII editors are not text editors. > >> . The Java community decided to ignore this and only use >> latin letters and arabic digits (i.e., »pi1«) and English >> words, to support the (international) exchange of code. >> >> (However, for a beginner's tutorial in German, I might use >> identifiers based on German words.) > > > German isn't very challenging apart from a couple of umlauts and that > funny symbol for ss that looks like a Greek beta. And perhaps in > Germany, keyboards will already take care of those. > > But which keyboards will have π [copied from the one above!]? > > Apart perhaps from the ones in Greece, where π might already be heavily > used in the same way we use 'p'. > -- Thomas Jollans -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
