"Eric Brunel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So what? Does it mean that it's acceptable for the standard library and
>keywords to be in English only, but the very same restriction on
>user-defined identifiers is out of the question? Why? If I can use my own
>language in my identifiers, why can't I write:
>
>classe MaClasse:
> définir __init__(moi_même, maListe):
> moi_même.monDictionnaire = {}
> pour i dans maListe:
> moi_même.monDictionnaire[i] = Rien
>
>For a French-speaking person, this is far more readable than:
>
>class MaClasse:
> def __init__(self, maListe):
> self.monDictionnaire = {}
> for i in maListe:
> self.monDictionnaire[i] = None
>
>Now, *this* is mixing apples and peaches... And this would look even
>weirder with a non-indo-european language...
>
I don't have any French, but I support this point absolutely - having
native identifiers is NFG if you can't also have native reserved words.
You may be stuck with English sentence construction though. - Would
be hard, I would imagine, to let the programmer change the word order,
or to incorporate something as weird as the standard double negative
in Afrikaans...
We say things that translate literally to: "I am not a big man not.", and it
is completely natural, so the if statements should follow the pattern.
- Hendrik
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