"Jason Orendorff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/14/07, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > No, I haven't. > > The most substantial use cases (if any) would have to be > in closed source code, which is hard to find. [snip] > They did tend to use non-English characters freely in > comments and (about half the time) in string literals. > The Japanese tutorials had no comments at all in the > code.
Your findings seem to suggest (but not prove either way) that having unicode strings and comments (that Python already supports) may be sufficient for a majority of use-cases (assuming that people document and comment their code ;). It would be nice to be able to find more examples in Java. I guess the question is whether the potential for community fragmentation is worth trying to handle a (seemingly much) smaller set of use-cases than is (already arguably sufficiently) handled with ascii identifiers. - 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
