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minus-square@affiliatelink4•1 year agothe worst is when you have to deal with v and ν (greek “nu”). add in the wedge symbol ∨ and things can get painful.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoi’ve never heard a better argument to disallow unicode in variable names.
minus-square@affiliatelink2•edit-21 year agoanother great argument against is the greek question mark, which lets you write the following beautiful loop: for (int ;=0;;<∧;;++)
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the worst is when you have to deal with v and ν (greek “nu”). add in the wedge symbol ∨ and things can get painful.
Why would you ever have to do that?
to make a contrived example on the internet
i’ve never heard a better argument to disallow unicode in variable names.
another great argument against is the greek question mark, which lets you write the following beautiful loop:
for (int ;=0;;<∧;;++)