PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

René Fleschenberg rene at korteklippe.de
Sat May 19 15:03:48 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.

I was not speaking of the more general (non-technical) meanings, but of
the technical ones. The claim which I challenged was that people learn
just the "use" (syntax) but not the "meaning" (semantics) of these
terms. I think you are actually supporting my argument ;)

-- 
René



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