Re: OPES Rules Language

This discussion seems silly.  For most languages based on a phonetic
character set, it is a straightforward, almost mechanical task to
change the lexical analyzer to accept a different character set and to
recognize different keywords.  It won't make it much easier to
understand a program written in a foreign country, though, because
even if you could backtranslate "Perl in French" to "Perl in Italian",
the variable names, when transliterated, wouldn't make much sense (and
there's the difficult problem of definining "transliteration" across
all character sets).  I don't know if all non-alphabetic human
languages can support programming languages easily; it is an
interesting question, but far out of scope.

So, my take on this is that it has nothing to do with OPES.  OPES
rules will need to support variables and matching from generalized
character sets, but that's as much of a requirement as makes sense
at this stage.

Hilarie