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I must say, I don't like it at all. As with all characters that aren't part of my keyboard, the extra steps to type these add so much friction. Also, I would probably misread ρ as p, giving me the weirdest compile errors.

How would you feel about adding acutes and cedilles to characters? It just adds complexity. Let's stick to the smallest common denominator.




the smallest common denominator for math is math symbols, full ascii notation instead of those is the extra complexity in reading comprehension, which, as the saying goes, is a more frequent occurence




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