Re: Characters Allowed in Symbols
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- Subject: [mg37865] Re: Characters Allowed in Symbols
- From: atelesforos at hotmail.com (Orestis Vantzos)
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:36:30 -0500 (EST)
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"Hermann Schmitt" <schmitther at netcologne.de> wrote in message news:<ar0102$b7k$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > Hello, > On page 1000 of the Mathematica book you can read: > "The name of a symbol must be a sequence of letters, letter-like symbols and > digits". > My question is: What letter-like forms are allowed? > Apparently "$" is allowed, additionally, I found, that "§" is allowed. > Are there yet other characters, which are allowed? > My aim is to use symbols in my package, which do not interfere with symbols, > which the user wants to define. > Hermann Schmitt Almost everything under "Letter-Like Forms" in the Complete Characters Palette can be used in the name of a symbol. The exceptions are mainly symbols that produce an error when evaluated (ellipses, skeleton symbols,etc.) Orestis Vantzos