Benefits of unicode identifiers

Fri Nov 24 07:40:22 EST 2017

On 2017年11月24日 13:12, bartc wrote:
> On 24/11/2017 11:56, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert at gmx.net> writes:
>>> However, the main point has been answered - Python already
>>> does what is talked about. End of story.
>>>>    Java allowed Unicode in identifiers right from the get-go
>>    (1995). I.e., one can write an assignment statement such as
>>>> π = 3.141;
>> That's great. But how do I type it on my keyboard? How do I view someone
> else's code on my crappy ASCII text editor?

ASCII editors are not text editors.
>>>    . The Java community decided to ignore this and only use
>>    latin letters and arabic digits (i.e., »pi1«) and English
>>    words, to support the (international) exchange of code.
>>>>    (However, for a beginner's tutorial in German, I might use
>>    identifiers based on German words.)
>>> German isn't very challenging apart from a couple of umlauts and that
> funny symbol for ss that looks like a Greek beta. And perhaps in
> Germany, keyboards will already take care of those.
>> But which keyboards will have π [copied from the one above!]?
>> Apart perhaps from the ones in Greece, where π might already be heavily
> used in the same way we use 'p'.
>
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Thomas Jollans