Re: What characters are allowed in mathematica variable names? i.e. how
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- Subject: [mg126085] Re: What characters are allowed in mathematica variable names? i.e. how
- From: James Stein <mathgroup at stein.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:07:20 -0400 (EDT)
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Another possibility: characters with various marks, such as cedilla or umlaut, can also be used in characters. Depending on taste, they may look better or worse that $, but have the advantage of no conflicting with Mathematica's use of $. On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:18 AM, dr DanW <dmaxwarren at gmail.com> wrote: > David, > Don't forget that Workbench is also a perfectly legitimate platform for > working in Mathematica, and primarily displays in ASCII. Programming with > these Unicode characters with the ungainly \[...] names is a serious pain, > and makes for uniquely unreadable code. > > Also, camel case is fine when just typing symbol names, but I am currently > working on an application where I need to generate symbol names. Without > some kind of delimiting character, some of the generated names may conflict > or not be readable. I ended up using $ out of sheer necessity, as it is on > e of the few ASCII non- alphanumeric characters available for naming. > > Daniel > >