Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrenced...@gmail.com>: > Mathematics uses single-character variable names so that > multiplication can be implicit.
I don't think anybody developed mathematical notation systematically. Rather, over the centuries, various masters came up with personal abbreviations and shorthand, which spread among admirers and students through emulation. The resulting two-dimensional hodgepodge needs to be supplemented by much natural-language handwaving. Rigorous treatment needs to use a formal language, eg: <URL: http://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/evlslem2.html>. Anyway, most programming has little use for mathematics. Thus, a general-purpose programming language shouldn't bend over backwards to placate that particular application domain. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
