2008/12/4 Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Aside from the cultural indoctrination, though (and that may be a real > and strong force when dealing with math software, and I don't want to > discount it in general, just for purposes of this discussion) why is > it more sensible to use "x" here instead of "number" or "real" or > "real_number" or something else?
Because long variable names in complicated math expressions lead to lines longer than 80 characters which hurts readability. You don't need to be a mathematician to see that. -- mvh Björn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
