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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95
Date: 1999/04/28
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> writes:

> There is no such *common* convention. There are *two*
> common conventions in this case () and [], ...

I guess the most *common* convention, or at least the most traditional
one, is to write a subscript in a smaller font, lowered slightly with
respect to the preceding text, as in:

    A
     i

(sort of -- I can't type what I mean here).  Haven't mathemeticians been
doing that for hundreds of years, and wasn't the A[i] notation invented
to get around the fact that the traditional subscript notation was
impossible using typical computer equipment?

- Bob
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