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I think it’s more likely they may have been referring to how it’s considered idiomatic to use extremely terse variable and function names in Haskell (and indeed
by DonaldPShimoda 9y ago
I think it’s more likely they may have been referring to how it’s considered idiomatic to use extremely terse variable and function names in Haskell (and indeed in most functional languages).
- chongli 9y agoThis is a habit borrowed from math. It often makes a lot of sense, however. Giving a variable a long name often unnecessarily ascribes intent to the variable. When a variable is generic enough to represent almost anything, giving it a specific name is potentially misleading.