Rapsey,<div><br></div><div>Couldn't agree more. There are so many other more important issues that could have been addressed by the OTP team and contributors.</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, we just go this (lower and upper) implemented in Elixir, but it could be very well separated out of Elixir to be used by plain Erlang developers: http://coderwall.com/p/pehkba </div><div><br></div><div>It compiles the necessary part of the unicode database right into the beam file, making it fairly efficient. Also, pending merge, I have a patch that makes upcase and downcase work with graphemes as opposed to codepoints (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/566), which we hopefully will merge in shortly.</div><div><br></div><div>Yurii.<br><br>On Monday, October 22, 2012 12:04:56 AM UTC-7, Rapsey wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Michael Richter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="5EtWYmxo5UgJ">ttmri...@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On 22 October 2012 13:08, Yurii Rashkovskii <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="5EtWYmxo5UgJ">yra...@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Please excuse my ignorance, but can you name a single good reason for non-latin atoms and variable names? From my personal point of view, this is a sure road to hell.</blockquote></div><div><br>Because people frequently like to work in their own language instead of a foreign language they ill understand?<br>
<br>Jesus! How can so many smart people be so god-damned dumb over this issue?<span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>I'm not from an english speaking country. I've worked for two development companies and all had a strict english only rule on code and all documentation. I am against this idea, simply because there are so many more worthwhile things the OTP team could be spending time on. If we're talking about unicode, a to_lower and to_upper function is a pretty big missing feature.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sergej</div>
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