[Python-3000] PEP: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Robert Brewer schrieb:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Subject: [Python-3000] PEP: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers
>> 
>> Common Objections =================
>> 
>> People claim that they will not be able to use a library if to do
>> so they have to use characters they cannot type on their keyboards.
>> However, it is the choice of the designer of the library to decide
>> on various constraints for using the library: people may not be 
>> able to use the library because they cannot get physical access to
>> the source code (because it is not published), or because licensing
>>  prohibits usage, or because the documentation is in a language
>> they cannot understand. A developer wishing to make a library
>> widely available needs to make a number of explicit choices (such
>> as publication, licensing, language of documentation, and language
>> of identifiers). It should always be the choice of the author to
>> make these decisions - not the choice of the language designers.
> 
> That seems true when each such decision is considered in isolation.
> But the language designers are responsible to make sure the number of
> such explicit decisions/choices does not grow beyond a reasonable
> limit.

Right. However, it is today already the developer's choice to use
English-based identifiers, or from a different language using
transliteration. So offering support to use the correct script
if they have chosen to use native-language identifiers does not
really change the number of explicit decisions.

Regards,
Martin