"Jason Orendorff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/13/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think this scenario is all that unlikely. A > > program is initially written by a Russian programmer > > who uses his own version of "a" as a variable name. > > Later an English-speaking programmer makes some > > changes, and uses an ascii "a". Now there are two > > subtly different variables called "a" in different > > parts of the program. > > If this scenario were *not* unlikely, it would have happened > to a Java programmer somewhere, right? Has this *ever* > happened? I wasn't able to find a case.
Have you been able to find substantial Java source in which non-ascii identifiers were used? I have been curious about its prevalence, but wouldn't even know how to start searching for such code. - Josiah _______________________________________________ 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
