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Re: Using \[Breve] as a substitute for underscore

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg91039] Re: Using \[Breve] as a substitute for underscore
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 03:24:28 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <g725qe$n7d$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

the other people use capital letters in variable names
because MassOfEarth is the usual Mathematica style and
\[Breve] can mixed up with Pattern[] and that make the
code nearly unreadable. You have to look very hard
to see that A\[Breve]Integer is not A_Integer


Regards
   Jens

Steven Siew wrote:
> In mathematica you cannot use underscore _  as part of a variable name
> as you could in other computer languages.
> 
> Has anyone tried using \[Breve] as an underscore substitute instead.
> 
> for example:
> 
> mass\[Breve]of\[Breve]earth = 5.97*^24
> 
> or
> 
> mass[esc]bv[esc]of[esc]bv[esc]earth = 5.97*^24
> 
> I kinda like "breve" because it looks like the standard underscore
> character.
> 
> What other characters do other people uses?
> 
> Steven Siew
>