PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Thorsten Kampe]

* René Fleschenberg (Tue, 15 May 2007 14:27:26 +0200)
> Thorsten Kampe schrieb:
> >> That is a reason to actively encourage people to write their code in
> >> English whereever possible, not one to allow non-ASCII identifiers,
> >> which might even do the opposite.
> > 
> > There is no reason to encourage or discourage people in which language 
> > to write their code. 
> 
> There is, because code sharing is generally a good thing. If you don't
> think it is, then we'll just have to agree to disagree on that point.

Just by repeating yourself you don't make your point more valid. Code 
sharing makes as much sense as book or car sharing. There a lots of 
projects where sharing code would be just nonsense. This code would be 
no use to anyone.