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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a style question
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Date: 4 Oct 90 00:06:53 GMT
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In <1990Oct1.174625.22061@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry
Spencer) writes:

>In what way is "ix" superior to "i"? 

Not only is "ix" not superior to "i", but it is in fact much
inferior.  Anybody with a mathematical (or FORTAN ;-) background, upon
seeing "i", will immediately and subconsciously react, "Ah!  We're
acting on the i-th element in a series!".  But when I see "ix", I say
to myself, "ix??  What's ix??".
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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