Circumflex to Distinguish Variable Names: Difference between revisions
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(Introduce the upright and inverted circumflex convention, with an example.) |
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Revision as of 16:01, 12 July 2021
Some authors create new variable names by adorning well-known symbols (like \( A \)) with the upright (\( \hat{A} \)) and inverted (\( \check{A} \)) circumflex. Depending on the font, these tiny diacritical marks can be hard to discern at a glance. A particularly egregious example is found in Hinze 2012, "Generic Programming with Adjunctions" (p. 5).