> they mess up people's pattern recognition

you have described perfectly the problem that I have when reading n0code written by programmers who are not mathematicians... my mind wants to read variables with multiple letters as products of each letter.

I find multi-letter variable names extremely old fasioned, as when math was written explicitly in latin before the advent of algeraic notation.

EDIT: an illustrative tweet of my concern: https://mobile.twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/14109451739...