[erlang-questions] A proposal for Unicode variable and atom names in Erlang.

[Michael Richter]

On 23 October 2012 16:20, Michael Richter <ttmrichter@REDACTED> wrote:

> On 23 October 2012 13:38, Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Now imagine if all maths where localized...<http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions>
>>
>
> They are.  The notation used by my students in their maths books is
> completely different in many key areas from the notation I used in high
> school and university to the point that I can't read them.
>
> Oddly enough the world of maths hasn't exploded at the seams.
>

Note, too, that the words between the actual maths symbols which remain the
same aren't in English, so even if the maths notation was completely,
absolutely, 100% the same, the explanatory prose in between would still be
unreadable to an English reader.  So, too, are the variables often in Hanzi
instead of the Latin or Greek alphabets.

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