Benefits of unicode identifiers (was: Allow additional separator in identifiers)

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 05:47:04PM -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:

> > Understanding, let alone being able to read, code written in Arabic ?
> 
> People are going to write code in Arabic whether you like it or not,
> because not everybody speaks English, and not everybody who does
> *wants* to use it. Now, would you prefer to read code where the
> variable names are written in Arabic script, or where the variable
> names are still in Arabic but transliterated to Latin characters?
> Either way, you're not going to be able to understand it, so I'm not
> sure why it makes a difference to you.

I can visually pattern match "words" based on Latin
characters. I can't with Arabic letters. So that answers the
"would you prefer" part.

However, the main point has been answered - Python already
does what is talked about. End of story.

Karsten
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