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Single letter procedure names are a bad idea in themself, and wouldn't make it past a code review in any shop I've ever been associated with. Single letter procedure names that you can't even read or type are an order of magnitude worse.

So yeah, I don't think I'm alone in not wanting to dig through your code if it's written this way. I don't want to see code like:

  for (int [left-curly-single-quote] = 1; '<10; '++)
Meaningful variable and procedure names were one of the big steps forward in the 70's. And while I'm sure the math textbook pictogram for summation is meaningful to you, it certainly isn't a good idea to use it in your code.


Uh, right. Because l-a-m-b-d-a says so much more than λ.




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