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I like the use of the Greek alphabet in the code base. Examples https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/src/solve/gensys.jl#L92 https://github.com/F
by has2k1 11y ago
I like the use of the Greek alphabet in the code base.
Examples
https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/src/solve/gensys.jl#L92 https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/src/solve/...
https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/src/solve/gensys.jl#L170 https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/src/solve/...
- cauthon 11y agoWhoa that's awesome, are there any other languages that allow that?
- bcg1 11y agoJava
- purpleparakeet 11y agoSwift.
- martinflack 11y agoCommon Lisp
- lg 11y agolots: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names
- bglazer 11y agoJavascript too. D3 uses it quite extensively. See here: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/master/src/geo/centroid.js https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/master/src/geo/centroid....
- bsg75 11y agoDoesn't this make the code more difficult to work with, sine these characters require uncommon sequences of keystrokes? Single character Greek variables don't seem better than single character ASCII for readability.
- tavert 11y agoJulia's REPL, and many editor plugins, supports tab-completion of unicode characters via their LaTeX code names, e.g. \alpha