[OT] Re: Bartosz about Chapel

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Fri Nov 11 11:06:41 PST 2011


On 11/11/11 12:54 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 11/11/2011 09:56 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>
>  > (Also none-ascii chars in code outside of strings is bad IMHO)
>
> In English code, right? :)
>
> There are real problems of using the ASCII relatives of Turkish letters:
>
> döndür: return
> dondur: freeze
> dön: turn
> don: underwear
> sık: squeeze
> sik: (a four-letter word)
>
> Thousands more... :)
>
> Ali

Cool. Imagine this movie scene. A gangster is naked in a house of 
tolerance. A cop suddenly opens the door, and says: "Dondur! Durma sik! 
Döndür ile giymek don!" Missing the umlauts would quite confuse the 
gangster.


Andrei


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