On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> and in Python in particular, because they will be not only forced to learn >>> some english, but also will have all 'pleasures' of multi-script editing. >>> But wait, probably one can write python code in, say Arabic script *only*? >>> How about such feature proposal? >> >> If Python supports ASCII identifiers only, people have no choice but >> to transliterate. As it is, people get to choose which is better for >> them - to transliterate or not to transliterate, that is the >> readability question. > > Sure, let them choose. > Transliteration though is way more reasonable solution.
That right there has settled it: you agree that identifiers have to use the broader Unicode set, not limited to ASCII. Otherwise they can't choose. Everything else is down to style guides; the language MUST support all alphabets so that people have this choice. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list