PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

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


>Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>
>>I still don't like the thought of the horrible mix of "foreign"
>>identifiers and English keywords, coupled with the English 
>>sentence construction.
>
>How do you think you'd feel if Python had less in the way of
>(conventionally used) English keywords/builtins. Like, say, Perl?

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.

- Hendrik