On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 02:22:50 UTC, Illuminati wrote:
It's concise and has a very specific meaning.
Well, only if we can agree on what the symbols mean. I'm not sure that every symbol is concise and specific across the fields of mathematics, statistics, and physics.
The worst part, however, is our (humans, that is) intrinsic desire to be "clever". There will be an endless incorrect use of symbols, which will render code very difficult to understand Friday afternoon when things break.
The whole point of symbols is to simplify, ∩ is more simple than intersect as the first requires 1 symbol and the second requires 8 symbols.
I don't buy that argument - fewer symbols is better? If so disagree, its a lot easier to make and a lot harder to catch a ∩ vs ∪ error compared to 'intersect()' vs 'union()' error.
How is Unicode normalization handled? It is my impression that certain symbols can be represented in more than one way. I could be wrong...
