PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"Sion Arrowsmith" <si..a at ....org.uk> wrote:

Hvr:
>>Would not like it at all, for the same reason I don't like re's -
>>It looks like random samples out of alphabet soup to me.
>
>What I meant was, would the use of "foreign" identifiers look so
>horrible to you if the core language had fewer English keywords?
>(Perhaps Perl, with its line-noise, was a poor choice of example.
>Maybe Lisp would be better, but I'm not so sure of my Lisp as to
>make such an assertion for it.)

I suppose it would jar less - but I avoid such languages, as the whole
thing kind of jars - I am not on the python group for nothing..

: - )

- Hendrik