Date: | Mon Jul 6 19:44:23 1994 | |
Subject: | Re: Why I hate C, Like Dylan | |
From: | Dave Mankins | |
Volume-ID: | 940707.05 |
In article <2ver7iINN8jk@early-bird.think.com>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes: > The reason mathematicians make such extensive use of fonts and case > is because all their symbols have only one letter in their names! If they > called the real numbers "Real", they wouldn't need <curly-R>. Yes, but they might still want to distinguish between Real (for numbers, say) and REAL (for the set). |