As you can probably imagine, I don’t agree. It seems like a huge problem to me if, when I read your code, I can’t tell which characters you’re using just by reading your code.
— John On Jan 17, 2014, at 8:55 AM, Jiahao Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think this means that we need to change all of the code we’ve written that >> uses Unicode to use only unambiguous ASCII characters. > > If we do this, I will have to bow out of maintaining any code I've > written with Unicode characters. There is a lot of numerical code that > simply too hard for me to read if I'm forced to do an extra layer of > transliteration for the sake of charset purity. > > I agree that the homograph problem is an issue, but it is something > that is not hard to check in practice so long as one is consistent > within the same scope.
