[OT] Re: Bartosz about Chapel
Ali Çehreli
acehreli at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 11 11:23:00 PST 2011
On 11/11/2011 11:06 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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
Ha ha! :)
Sadly though, something similar happened before: Husband kills her
separated wife after misunderstanding her text message (or something
like that). Although I can't find a link to the news story now.
Ali
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