On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, at 05:20, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > We're not talking about posting "your own writing", we're talking about > comments (and presumably documentation) in a collective software > project. There's a need for consistency, however it's > specified and achieved. > > Otherwise why stop at English? I could just as well write my comments > in French if it's all about individual freedom. Requiring English is > not inclusive, it forced people like me to painfully adapt to a > language I wasn't used to. And that has nothing to do with "white > supremacy".
Why indeed? Surely there are people somewhere in the world who write their comments in French, or Russian, or Japanese, and also name their variables in those languages, and I would argue there's nothing wrong with that (it certainly seems a lot of wasted effort supporting Unicode in variable names otherwise), they simply don't form a contiguous community with people whose code is in English And that's the core, I think, of the issue. If the dialect someone wishes to write their comments in is mutually intelligible with "standard" (however defined) English there's no real need to enforce a higher degree of conformity beyond that. It can be understood, and that is enough. Whereas, if it is not, then they are effectively a foreign language programming community, and there's no reason to say they shouldn't go their own way any more than for French/Russian/Japanese/etc. The desire to enforce a higher degree of conformity despite the lack of such a need is what has been described by some in this discussion as "white supremacy". _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/ZLFWE2NGCTUJ74FVAZLBIYG3AMTSK3VD/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
