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Date:Mon Jul 6 22:07:00 1994 
Subject:Re: Why I hate C, Like Dylan 
From:Richard Lynch 
Volume-ID:940708.01 

In article <2vf1in$40k@bigbird.hri.com>, dm@hri.com (Dave Mankins) wrote:

|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).

Or, they might want to be nice to the poor schmuck that has to read their
code and use real-numbers and real-set [er, RealNumbers and RealSet, but
you get the point].

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