Guillaume Proux a écrit : > (I mistakenly replied in private. here is a copy for the py3000 mailing list.) > > > Good evening! > > On 5/26/07, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You're missing "here is this neat code from sourceforge", or "Here is >> something I cut-and-pasted from ASPN". If those use something outside >> of ASCII, that's fine -- so long as they tell you about it. >> >> If you didn't realize it was using non-ASCII (or even that it could), >> and the author didn't warn you -- then that is an appropriate time for >> the interpreter to warn you that things aren't as you expect. > > I fail to see your point. Why should the interpreter warn you? > > There is nothing wrong to have programs written with identifiers using > accented letters, cyrillic alphabet, morse code?! Why should you be > warned? If the programmer who wrote the code decided to use its own > language to name some of the identifiers ... then.. bygones. > sure, until you hit some bug and would like to debug it, and you can't even recognise the identifiers from one another...
> If you have an actual requirement that everything should be ascii > then do not copy code off ASPN without first sanitizing it and do not > copy neat code from sf.net from people you hardly know without doing a > full ascii-compliance and security review. > > but if the code you copy off somewhere else does what you need it to > do... then why do you want to force the author of this code generously > donated to you to downgrade his expressiveness by having to rewrite > all his code to reach ascii purity? > don't make it sound so dramatic. Python programmers already accept limits on expressiveness in the name of readability. Heck, otherwise we would all be using Perl. BC _______________________________________________ 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
