On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 20:25:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
But identifiers? I haven't seen hardly any use of non-ascii
identifiers in C, C++, or D. In fact, I've seen zero use of it
outside of test cases.
Do you look at Japanese D code much? Or Turkish? Or Chinese?
I know there are decently sized D communities in those languages,
and I am pretty sure I have seen identifiers in their languages
before, but I can't find it right now.
Just there's a pretty clear potential for observation bias here.
Even our search engine queries are going to be biased toward
English-language results, so there can be a whole D world kinda
invisible to you and I.
We should reach out and get solid stats before making a final
decision.
most likely be annoyance rather than illumination when people
who don't know that language have to work on the code.
Well, for example, with a Chinese company, they may very well
find forced English identifiers to be an annoyance.
