[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131

Ka-Ping Yee python at zesty.ca
Tue Jun 12 09:30:33 CEST 2007


On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, [ISO-8859-1] "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> Also, that all identifiers are ASCII is not sufficient
> for you to be able to debug the program in case of need: it also
> needs to be commented well, and the comments also should be in
> a language you understand. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated
> that ASCII-only identifiers are no guarantee that you can actually
> understand the code, if they happen to be non-English in a convoluted
> way, e.g. through transliteration.

You keep making arguments of this type: that lacking a 100% guarantee
of a desirable property is reason to abandon consideration of the
property altogether.  I reject such arguments, as they should be
rejected by any sound application of logic.  They don't belong in this
debate; please stop making them.


-- ?!ng


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