Talk:MATH 491 List of Operations

Discussion for MATH 491 List of Operations

Possible multi-character token schemes

• reserved "keywords": e.g. pm for plus/minus
• surround with some type of delimiter?
  • [pm], |pm|, {pm}
  • /pm/
• precede and/or postcede by a special (unused or rarely used) character
  • ampersand and/or semicolon (like HTML/XML entity): &pm, ±
  • backslash (like LaTeX): \pm
  • dollar-sign: $pm
  • colon (like a Ruby symbol): :pm
  • underscore (like reserved C/C++ variable): _pm