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The more relevant part is comparison with math notation. No whitespaces and line breaks there.
by avmich 12y ago
The more relevant part is comparison with math notation. No whitespaces and line breaks there.
- dragonwriter 12y agoActually, the usual presentation of math notation in textbooks, papers, etc., while dense, does use whitespace -- and often large whitespace or line breaks for factoring out definitions used in the main equation for readability and ready comprehension. [1] Let-bindings and similar constructs in other functional languages are, in fact, largely driven by this kind of factoring-out in mathematical notation (not just in their use of whitespace, but in general.) [1] For an example of the large whitespace for factoring-out, see the factoring out of J-sub-k on the top of p. 460 of http://titan.fsb.hr/~venovako/dist/tensor.pdf http://titan.fsb.hr/~venovako/dist/tensor.pdf