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Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com>
Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:12:28 +0200

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From: Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:12:28 +0200
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
References: 12-03-019 12-03-026 12-03-029 12-06-016
Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 11 Jun 2012 02:08:38 EDT

On 2012/06/07 20:15, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> Mathematicians have an implied operator between symbols. You can't do
> that with multi character names. Not in a way that can make sense, to
> me.


In mathematics, the spacing is different - check out TeX. For example,
the name "sin" is typeset somewhat tighter than implicit multiplication
of the three variables "s", "i" and "n". Unicode has various spaces that
might be used.


Hans


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