[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Mon May 14 18:40:08 CEST 2007

"Jason Orendorff" <jason.orendorff at gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/13/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > I don't think this scenario is all that unlikely. A > program is initially written by a Russian programmer > who uses his own version of "a" as a variable name. > Later an English-speaking programmer makes some > changes, and uses an ascii "a". Now there are two > subtly different variables called "a" in different > parts of the program. If this scenario were not unlikely, it would have happened to a Java programmer somewhere, right? Has this ever happened? I wasn't able to find a case.

Have you been able to find substantial Java source in which non-ascii identifiers were used? I have been curious about its prevalence, but wouldn't even know how to start searching for such code.

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