Greg Ewing wrote: >Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> There's not much, if any, benefit to writing: >> >> ∫(expression, lower_limit, upper_limit, name)
>More generally, there's a kind of culture clash between mathematical >notation and programming notation. Mathematical notation tends to >almost exclusively use single-character names, relying on different >fonts and alphabets, and superscripts and subscripts, to get a large >enough set of identifiers. Whereas in programming we use a much >smaller alphabet and longer names. That's probably because mathematicians grown up writing everything with a chalk on a blackboard. Hands are tired after hours of writing and blackboards are limitited, need to erase everything and start over. I find actually symbols ≤ ≥ (inclusive comparison) nice. They look ok and have usage in context of writing code. But that's merely an exception in world of math symbols. OTOH I'm strongly against unicode. Mikhail _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
