Re: UTF-8 identifiers [was: Re: Lua t-shirts]

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Jerome Vuarand wrote:
>
> Being able to use accented letters or even non-roman characters would
> be a useful tool to teach programming to people not speaking english.
> Ideally you would need to translate keywords, libraries and built-in
> error messages, but given Lua's size that seems reasonnable to do.

I have heard that programmers perfer to use English because their native
language is highly inflected, so (for example) Russian identifiers and
keywords would be painfully illiterate because of the lack of parts of
speech.

Tony.
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