On 2012-02-14 22:02, Brent Yorgey wrote:
What is the "Fairbairn threshold"? I tried doing a Google search for it, and all I got was a bunch of messages from libraries@haskell.org (all of which only *referenced* it, without defining it).
I believe that the term refers to what Jón Fairbairn wrote in the following message: Names for small functions: just say no... Re: Data.List.join http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/5280/focus=5355 Ross Paterson seems to have coined the term later the same day in a message to the same mailing list: proposed addition to System.IO http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/5325/focus=2029 For those following the list at the time it should have been obvious what the term referred to. -- /NAD