Language change and code breaks

[Alex Martelli]

"Greg Ewing" <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
news:3B566ED8.E14732F8 at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz...
> Alex Martelli wrote:
> >
> > having a recently-invented typographic prettiness, such as
> > letter-cd tcase, affect meaning, has always struck me as a deeply
> > flawed idea.
>
> If you asked a mathematician, I doubt he'd regard
> it as either "recent" or "flawed". Mathematicians
> have been using case-, font-, style- and alphabet-
> sensitive identifiers for centuries...

I think it was a 19th century fancy, to start with.  Extremely
recent when compared to the amount of time mathematics
has been written about.


Alex