[OT] Re: Bartosz about Chapel

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On 11/11/2011 12:26 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 11.11.2011 19:54, schrieb Ali Çehreli:
>> 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
>>
>
> I (almost?) always use english variables, classnames etc, even though
> it's not my native tongue.
> And if I, for whatever reason, use non-english names I still stick to
> ascii.
> I just image that someone else will want to understand or modify my code
> and he may not speak my language

Why do you assume they will know English?

> and may not have umlauts and stuff like
> that on his keyboard.

Good point.

>
> As I said, this does not apply to strings that are displayed to the
> user, obviously.