22 Sep
2008
22 Sep
'08
4:46 a.m.
Andrew Coppin wrote:
[...] - 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).
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//Stephan -- Früher hieß es ja: Ich denke, also bin ich. Heute weiß man: Es geht auch so. - Dieter Nuhr