PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Gregor Horvath gh at gregor-horvath.com
Wed May 16 06:12:53 EDT 2007


Hendrik van Rooyen schrieb:

> It is not so much for technical reasons as for aesthetic 
> ones - I find reading a mix of languages horrible, and I am
> kind of surprised by the strength of my own reaction.

This is a matter of taste.
In some programs I use German identifiers (not unicode). I and others 
like the mix. My customers can understand the code better. (They are 
only reading it)

> 
> "Beautiful is better than ugly"

Correct.
But why do you think you should enforce your taste to all of us?

With this logic you should all drive Alfa Romeos!

Gregor



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