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

breamoreboy at gmail.com breamoreboy at gmail.com
Thu Nov 23 17:42:35 EST 2017


On Thursday, November 23, 2017 at 6:50:29 PM UTC, Mikhail V wrote:
> Chris A wrote:
> 
> >> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Mikhail V wrote:
> >>
> >>> Chris A wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Fortunately for the world, you're not the one who decided which
> >>> characters were permitted in Python identifiers. The ability to use
> >>> non-English words for function/variable names is of huge value; the
> >>> ability to use a hyphen is of some value, but not nearly as much.
> >>
> >> Fortunately for the world we have Chris A. Who knows what is
> >> fortunate and of huge values.
> >> So is there any real world projects example of usage of non-latin scripts
> >> in identifiers? Or is it still only a plan for the new world?
> 
> 
> > Yes, I've used them personally. And I know other people who have.
> 
> 
> Oh, I though it would be more impressive showcase for 'huge value'.
> If we drop the benefit of the bare fact that you can do it, or you just
> don't know English, how would describe the practical benefit?
> If you don't know english, then programming at all will be just too hard.
> (or one must define a new whole language specially for some local script)
> 
> I mean for a real practical situation - for example for an average
> Python programmer or someone who seeks a programmer job.
> And who does not have a 500-key keyboard, and who has
> a not enough high threshold of vision sensitivity to bear the look
> of various scripts in one small text piece?
> 
> Ok, I personally could find some practical usage for that, but
> merely for fun. I doubt though that someone with less
> typographical experience and overall computer literacy could
> really make benefits even for personal usage.
> 
> So - fun is one benefit. And fun is important. But is that the
> idea behind it?
> 
> 
> Mikhail

Your normal rubbish.  Do you ever give up with wasting our time?



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