On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > There's not just the keyboard mapping. There's the mental cost of knowing > which keyboard mapping you need ("is it Greek, Hebrew, or maths > symbols?"), the cost of remembering the mapping from the keys you see on > the keyboard to the keys they are mapped to ("is Ω mapped to O or W?") > and so forth. If you know lambda-calculus, you might associate λ with > functions, [...]
Or if you know Python and the name of the letter ("lambda"). But yes, typing out the special characters is annoying. I just use words. The only downside to using words is, how do you specify capital versus lowercase letters? "Gamma = ..." violates the style guide! :( -- Devin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list