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

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Nov 23 22:13:22 EST 2017


On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:
> From my above example, you could probably see that I prefer somewhat
> middle-sized identifiers, one-two syllables. And naturally, they tend to
> reflect some process/meaining, it is not always achievable,
> but yes there is such a natural tendency, although by me personally
> not so strong, and quite often I use totally meaningless names,
> mainly to avoid visual similarity to already created names.
> So for very expanded names, it ends up with a lot of underscores :(

Okay. So if it makes sense for you to use English words instead of
individual letters, since you are fluent in English, does it stand to
reason that it would make sense for other programmers to use Russian,
Norwegian, Hebrew, Korean, or Japanese words the same way?

ChrisA



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