On 6/10/07, Leonardo Santagada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are all consenting > adults and we know that we should code in english if we want our code > to be used and to be a first class citizen of the open source world.
I have no objection to Open Source being written in Chinese. My objection is to not knowing which file a script is using. Think of it like the coding directive. Once upon a time, if you didn't have a coding directive, but used characters outside of ASCII, the results were system-dependent. It didn't cause much of a problem, because most people stuck to ASCII, and the exceptions mostly stuck to characters that were common across codesets. Still, it was better to be explicit. I want an explicit notice of which scripts are being used. I'll settle for an explicit choice of which scripts can be used, so that I can just exclude the ones I wasn't expecting. This doesn't fully cover the malicious (or careless) user case, but it gives me the tools to set my own ease-of-use tradeoffs between "it just runs" and "it does what I think it does". -jJ _______________________________________________ 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
