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Subject: Re: [OT] spelling colour / color was Re: Toggle
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:19:03 -0400
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 22:50:45 +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
>> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> If Python ever grows a 'color' statement or keyword, then sure.
>>> Otherwise, it's just identifiers and data, which are international.
>>
>> Do you mean that the Python syntax should use American spellings, but
>> the Python standard library could use words like "colour", "Farbe",
>> "väri" etc?
>
>That's up to the core devs. But mainly, I was talking about user level
>code, where you most definitely can do that sort of thing.
>

	And then there is REXX... Which deliberately has both centre() and
center() in its standard library -- and they do the same thing...
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