On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 01:47:07PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> On 09/27/2016 01:09 PM, Richard Biener wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > The accepted style is already very permissive, we don't allow just one
> > > > spelling as various lint tools.
> > >
> > > Well, it cannot even handle the variations of a single codebase, GCC
> > > itself,
> > > so I'm afraid very permissive is not exactly the appropriate wording here.
> > > Anyway, we'll see whether Bugzilla is flooded or not in the upcoming days.
> >
> > During discussion I already pointed out that people may use non-english
> > variants as well. I've seen a lot of french variable/function names in my
> > academic life for example.
>
> Yes, I pointed out the same thing a few weeks ago.
But the C/C++ keywords are all English, too; lint tools only accept English,
and so it wouldn't seem unreasonable to only accept English keywords in the
comments. And in any case, I don't see how a compiler can be expected to
be able to parse non-English languages.
Marek
