Hello, On 6/12/07, Baptiste Carvello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
You would be surprised how well you can do if you would actually try to recognize a set of Chinese characters, especially if you would use some tool to put a meaning on them. Well, I never formally learned any Chinese (nor any Japanese actually) , but I can now effortlessly parse both languages now. But really, if you ever find any code with Chinese written all over it that you would believe might be very useful to you, you would have one of the following choice: (a) use a tokenizer and use some tool to do a hanzi -> ascii automatic transliteration/translation (b) try to wrap the Chinese things with an ASCII veil (which would make you work on your Chinese a bit) or you could ask your Chinese girlfriend to help you (WHAT you don't have a Chinese girlfriend yet? :)) (c) actually contact the person who submitted the code to let him know you are very much interested in the code.... In most cases, this would give you the possibility to reach out to different communities and to work together with people with whom you might never have talked to. From what we can see on English-only mailing lists, this is the kind of python users we don't normally have access to currently because they simply are secluded in their own little universe, in the comfortable realm of their own linguistic barriers. Of course, sometimes they step out and offer a plea for help on English ML in broken English... PEP3131 is unlikely to change this. However it can see it might have two ethnically interesting consequences: 1) Python usage in community where ascii has little place should find more uses because people will become enpowered with Python and able to express themselves like never before: my bet is that for example, the Japanese python commmunity will become stronger and welcome new people younger and older, and that do not know much English. 2) If ever a program written with non-ASCII character find some good usage in ascii-only communities, then the usual plea for help will be reversed. People will seek out e.g. Japanese programmers and request help, maybe in broken Japanese. From this point on, all programming communities will be on an equal footing and able to talk together on the same standpoint. I guess you know "Liberté Egalité Fraternité". Maybe this should be the PEP subtitle. > what happens to the keyword "if" (just try it:-). You would have to translate > the identifiers one by one, which is not practical. would be possible with the tokenizer actually :) Droit comme un if ! A bientôt, Guillaume _______________________________________________ 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
