21 Jul
2010
21 Jul
'10
8:18 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 04:46:09PM -0700, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
Picking appropriate names for things makes a surprisingly big difference when reading large amounts of code, especially when you are not the program's author.
That's a useful principle, but few follow it all the way to its logical conclusion. It's also useful to have a few standard types, to provide a common interface between user functions and lots of utility functions. That's why we have lists and pairs, and Maybe and Either.