Language change and code breaks

[Greg Ewing]

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...

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