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Eh, I have to diagree on that. A mathematician reading ∛x in code will immediately know what it means, but that isn't necessarily true when seeing cbrt(x). Juli
by maccam912 5y ago
Eh, I have to diagree on that. A mathematician reading ∛x in code will immediately know what it means, but that isn't necessarily true when seeing cbrt(x). Julia was written for mathematicians, not programmers, and takes some getting used to.
- jstx1 5y agoThe mathematician still has to type \cbrt + tab to type the glyph so they have to know the name of the function. Not only that, they have to know the name of the function from reading the Unicode glyph or be constantly pasting characters into the REPL. I don't get how that's more efficient in any way.
- leephillips 5y agoWe are in the age of Unicode. The LaTeX entry methods are options, not required. I rarely use them, and don’t paste in characters. I hit a modifier key. Typing a Greek letter is no more inconvenient than typing an uppercase letter.