PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers
René Fleschenberg
rene at korteklippe.de
Tue May 15 08:04:07 EDT 2007
Thorsten Kampe schrieb:
> Because keywords are not meant meant to extended or manipulated or
> something similar by the programmers. Keywords are well known and only
> a limited set of words. That's why you can't use keywords as
> identifiers.
This is true for keywords, but not for the stdlib. Are you suggesting
that the stdlib should be "internationalized"?
> There really is no difference to allow strings or comments in non-
> english languages and non-ASCII characters.
Comments in a non-English language are a bad idea. And of course there
is a difference between strings (data) and identifiers (program logic).
--
René
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