Re: [Haskell-cafe] Line noise

Stephan Friedrichs wrote:

Andrew Coppin wrote:

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[...] - Variable names such as "x" and "f" aren't fabulously helpful to lost programmers trying to find their way.

I'm not a fan of cryptic variable names, either, and I try to use descriptive names wherever I can. But in Haskell...

- ... you often have variables, which have a scope of far less than a line such as in "map (\(x, (_, y)) -> (x, y) ..." (cleaning intermediate results from a list).

- ... things often get very abstract, so that it just feels wrong matching on, say, (socket:sockets) instead of (x:xs).

...so, more or less the reason why mathematical formulas usually end up with non-descriptive variable names then. ;-)