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