[Python-3000] Unicode identifiers (Was: sets in P3K?)

[Georg Brandl]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>> I was hoping to propose a PEP on non-ASCII identifiers some
>>> day; that would (of course) include a requirement that the
>>> standard library would always be restricted to ASCII-only
>>> identifiers as a style-guide.
>> 
>> IMO communication about code becomes much more cumbersome if there are
>> non-ASCII letters in identifiers, and the rules about what's a letter,
>> what's a digit, and what separates two identifiers become murky.
> 
> It depends on the language you use to communicate. In English,
> it is certainly cumbersome to talk about Chinese identifiers.
> OTOH, I believe it is cumbersome to communicate about English
> identifiers in Chinese, either, because the speakers might
> not even know what the natural-language concept behind the
> identifiers is, and because they can't pronounce the identifier.

They'll still have to type, pronounce and talk about English keywords, English
operators and English standard library and 3rd-party module, class and method
names, which makes a big percentage of code still Latin.

Georg