On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 18:57:03 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
It's still not inconsistent to disallow math symbols.
It is inconsistent if you accept that different communities have different notations/languages. Why you would you want to exclude the scientific community?
here: I want to guide people toward using descriptive names, because that makes it easier to read code, which makes it easier to verify correctness.
Err, no, the contrary. What you get is an incomprehensible and overly verbose mess that hide problems and/or result in excessive overloading of the "*" symbol. Try some geometric computing problems, it gets messy quickly.
People don't write descriptive names, they write short names, if you provide a very limited set of symbols. Like "dot".
