OpenEuphoria

Re: Accented characters in identifiers

• Posted by jacques deschênes <desja at gl?bet?otter.net> May 27, 2008
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I agree with Salix on this.  We could give the freedom of accented character to
programmers but  standard libraries and other codes distributed with euphoria
should be restricted to english. I rebember reading a contribution from a
euphoria user with identifiers although not accented were in a language I don't
understand. I gave up because it is hard to read code where all identifiers are
from an unknown language. But it not a problem as long as it not part of the
distribution. English is a de facto common language on this planet.

jacques
 

Salix wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> > 
> > CChris wrote:
> > > 
> > > What do you think?
> > 
> > Being a unicode (I should say any non-ascii) dummy, how would this affect
> > people
> > reading and using code with such characters?
> 
> I think it would be great! I would definitely use the special characters.  
> Whenever I write an open library I try anyway to choose function names 
> that are obvious for the majority of the programmers. (See English speakers.)
> But whenever I write a code for my own (CGI, database, etc.) I prefer my 
> own language/words/characters. Why not?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Salix
> (hu-en-de)