On Feb 21, 2009, at 4:47 PM, John Cowan wrote: > Guillermo J. Rozas scripsit: > >> Would you argue that an italic type face would make the symbol >> distinct? > > On the 10th page of http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ > ch15.pdf > (p. 496 of the printed Unicode 5.0 book), there's a neat demonstration > of how the Hamiltonian formula, if you strip font information, turns > into an integral equation in the variable H.
Yes. In Mathematics, a misguided attempt at terseness leads to horrors such as that. But do we want to replicate that? > >> But it is called 'Scheme', and that means a tradition worth >> preserving. > > Not every part of the tradition is worth preserving. The > multiprogramming > primitives disappeared in R1RS, and as for () being false, I'm > heartily > glad that's gone. And I bet that multiprogramming primitives will come back. And with respect to () vs. #f, the jury is still out. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
