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Re:Mathematical Notation Is Awful by Smaug123 on Sunday July 31, 2016 @06:51AM (#12196412)
It's good practice anyway in LaTeX to define your own aliases and use them for semantic information. Like in one of my recent projects, I define:

    \newcommand{\disjointunion}{\sqcup}
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Re:Mathematical Notation Is Awful by bjornsing on Sunday July 31, 2016 @07:01AM (#12196436)
Now we're getting close to the heart of the matter: In LaTeX it's "good practice" to define the semantics of operators, in programming languages it's an absolute requirement.
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