a style question

[Peter Montgomery]

In article <1990Oct1.174625.22061 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>There is an old prejudice against using "I" or "O" for a variable name,
>arising from confusion with "1" and "0", but the lowercase letters don't
>have that problem.

	The lowercase "l" should similarly be avoided.

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        Peter L. Montgomery 
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        Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555
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