PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Gregor Horvath]

Eric Brunel schrieb:

> Highly improbable in the general context. If I stumble on a source code 
> in Chinese, Russian or Hebrew, I wouldn't be able to figure out a single 
> sound.

If you get source code in a programming language that you don't know you 
can't figure out a single sound too.
How is that different?

If someone decides to make *his* identifiers in Russian he's taking into 
account that none-Russian speakers are not going to be able to read the 
code.
If someone decides to program in Fortran he takes into account that the 
average Python programmer can not read the code.

How is that different?

It's the choice of the author.
Taking away the choice is not a good thing.
Following this logic we should forbid all other programming languages 
except Python so everyone can read every code in the world.

Gregor