Math isn’t code. Math isn’t algorithmic. Good math uses more writing than symbols, but mathematics understanding took off when we started converging on notations. The field used to be longform written, in Latin, and it sucked a lothttps://twitter.com/citnaj/status/1233076496584953856 …
I agree that math isn't code per se. But it's often abused to do it anyway- poorly. Hammer/nail syndrome, I'd call it. Example of what would probably just be better as code:https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1272030/how-to-do-if-and-else-in-math …
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This is just an aesthetic choice. Perhaps it would look a little goofy if you left the statement curried out, but I think that Henning's solution looks fine without extra context. A niche issue I take with the example is that it makes it look like an algorithm.
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Part of my area of study is around computable mathematics. When you want to show something is computable you write out some pseudocode for your program. The above however is not a computable map and I'd definitely avoid anything which might communicate that.
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That's much more readable in mathematical notation and more clearly shows what's going on that way.
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