Re: Help Defining Variables (with long names)
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- Subject: [mg16880] Re: [mg16720] Help Defining Variables (with long names)
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 02:24:20 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
>What is the best way to declare variable with a 'long name'? I am >currently using the underscore to separate the words. For example: > >liquid_density_of_ethylene_glycol=1.114 There is another solution to this problem besides using caps and jamming the words together as LiquidDensityOfEthyleneGlycol. There are a number of letter-like forms which can be used as separators in long names. These are described in Section 3.10 of the Mathematica Book, pages 917 and 919. They consist of letter-like forms such as \[UnderBracket], \[VerticalEllipsis] etc., or diacritical marks such as \[Breve] or \[DownBreve]. They are available at the bottom of the Textual Forms section of the CompleteCharacters palette. They are not quite as convenient as a direct keyboard character, but if one really wants word separators they look nice and serve the purpose. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/