[r6rs-discuss] Unicode in Scheme identifiers

Jason Orendorff jason.orendorff at gmail.com
Mon May 14 12:58:42 EDT 2007


Lauri Alanko wrote:
> There is no English in a computer program (except possibly in
> comments).

I consider this the flaw in your argument.  Communication
among humans is one of the chief purposes of a program.
Good programmers choose names carefully.

Where I work, our code is full of names made up of
English words.

-j



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