On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > > If you *regularly* use the alpha character, it's ~no more > difficult to remember α than α[1]. > > And, if you *don't* regularly use the alpha character, you would > have to look it up anyway. > Not quite. I can remember Α, it sticks in my hand whereas α does not, for obvious reasons. i don't use non-ascii references often, but when I do, entities named &rdquot; and — are much easier to recall without looking up a reference than a numberical entity. I don't think an argument can be made that the character references aren't at least somewhat useful for people who handwrite their code, and additionally, they make it far easier for a novice to read code. have you ever tried teaching an HTML beginner to type numerical character references? -chasonReceived on Tuesday, 13 May 2003 17:14:49 GMT
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