Re: [sbml-arrays] [jsbml-team] [libsbml-team] MathML and String Parser for Arrays

[Nicolas Le N. <n.l...@gm...>]

On 22/10/13 16:48, Andreas Dräger wrote:
>Braces are
> more intuitive and also the regular mathematical notation in text books etc.

Huh? In Germany then. In high school in France we used parenthesis. And from university we always used square brackets. Which are the two notations mentioned in the Wikipedia matrix page by the way (the arrays related pages only use square brackets). Braces were used for sets, which are something completely different. Until today If I saw {a, b, c}, I would never have thought of an array, but of an unordered list. Now I realise mathematics is maybe not a universal language after all.

Programming is a different thing. It seems language inventors used everything they could find.

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