Re: Characters Allowed in Symbols
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- Subject: [mg37856] Re: Characters Allowed in Symbols
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:35:49 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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Hi, look into the "Complete Character Set" palette under "Letter-like Forms". In packages you should use Begin["`Private`"] End[] to hide local symbols. Using characters like \[Sterling], \[Section] will make the code unreadble. Regards Jens Hermann Schmitt wrote: > > 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