James Y Knight a écrit : > If another developer is planning to write code in English, this whole > debate is moot. So, let's take as a given that he is going to write a > program in his own non-English language. Now, will he write in a > asciified form of his language, or using the proper character set? > Right now, the only option is the first. The PEP proposes to also > allow the second. > that's a very nice summary of the situation.
> So, your question should be: is it easier to understand an ASCIIified > form of another language, or the actual language itself? For me (who > doesn't speak said langauge, nor perhaps even know its character > set), I'm pretty sure the answer is still going to be the second: I'd > rather a program written in Chinese use Chinese characters, rather > than a transliteration of Chinese into ASCII. > This is where we strongly disagree. If an identifier is written in transliterated chinese, I cannot understand what it means, but I can recognise it when it is used in the code. I will then find out the meaning from the context. By contrast, with chineses identifiers, I will not recognise them from one another. So I won't be able to make any sense from the code without going through the complex task of translating everything. > because it is actually > feasible for me to do automatic translation of Chinese into something > resembling English. And of course, that's even more true when talking > about a language like French, which uses an alphabet quite familiar > to me, but yet online translators still fail to function if it's been > transliterated into ASCII. > dream on! Automatic translation won't work. For example, if you actually try feeding python code to a french-to-english translator, you might be surprised by what happens to the keyword "if" (just try it:-). You would have to translate the identifiers one by one, which is not practical. Cheers, 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
