Robert Brewer schrieb: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Subject: [Python-3000] PEP: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers >> >> Common Objections ================= >> >> People claim that they will not be able to use a library if to do >> so they have to use characters they cannot type on their keyboards. >> However, it is the choice of the designer of the library to decide >> on various constraints for using the library: people may not be >> able to use the library because they cannot get physical access to >> the source code (because it is not published), or because licensing >> prohibits usage, or because the documentation is in a language >> they cannot understand. A developer wishing to make a library >> widely available needs to make a number of explicit choices (such >> as publication, licensing, language of documentation, and language >> of identifiers). It should always be the choice of the author to >> make these decisions - not the choice of the language designers. > > That seems true when each such decision is considered in isolation. > But the language designers are responsible to make sure the number of > such explicit decisions/choices does not grow beyond a reasonable > limit.
Right. However, it is today already the developer's choice to use English-based identifiers, or from a different language using transliteration. So offering support to use the correct script if they have chosen to use native-language identifiers does not really change the number of explicit decisions. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
