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

Guillaume Proux gproux at gmail.com
Tue May 15 01:46:17 CEST 2007

Hello,

On 5/15/07, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:

and comment their code ;). It would be nice to be able to find more examples in Java.

I believe that a lot of people do not know that you can use most Unicode characters in Java identifiers. I did not know myself until this discussion. Furthermore, to find some examples of those, you would have to find in the native language of each speaker.

I guess the question is whether the potential for community fragmentation is worth trying to handle a (seemingly much) smaller set of use-cases than is (already arguably sufficiently) handled with ascii identifiers.

Which fragmentation? People who can write ascii-restricted Python will not go away and form their own little sect. One of the big issue of this debate here in English is that the people who have a real stake (the one who do not master English) cannot join in the discussion. I was trying to let you know of my experience with native Japanese speaker that have no or little English capability but people do not want to listen.

Regards,

Guillaume

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