31 Dec
2005
31 Dec
'05
11:34 a.m.
Philip Pemberton wrote:
Hmm. I was always told that "if there's any
possibility of a zero being
mistaken for an 'O', put a forward slash through the zero"...
Guess it's personal preference, but I bet it cause{s,d} more than a few
problems... "Bob in Engineering slashes his zeroes, but Fred in Software
slashes his 'O's. Mix them up at your peril."
My gripe is modern displays and printers print 1 ( one ) and l (
lowercase L ) the same.