PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Gregor Horvath gh at gregor-horvath.com
Thu May 17 09:41:47 EDT 2007


Martin v. Löwis schrieb:

> I've reported this before, but happily do it again: I have lived many
> years without knowing what a "hub" is, and what "to pass" means if
> it's not the opposite of "to fail". Yet, I have used their technical
> meanings correctly all these years.

That's not only true for computer terms.
In the German Viennese slang there are a lot of Italian, French, 
Hungarian, Czech, Hebrew and Serbocroatien words. Nobody knows the exact 
meaning in their original language (nor does the vast majority actually 
speak those languages), but all are used in the correct original context.

Gregor



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