[Haskell-beginners] Important coding guideline and library proposal

[Joe Fredette]

Well then, on a similar note, I propose the following name changes:


(+) is now  
"yesIShouldReallyLikeToKnowTheSumOfTheseTwoThingsOverWhichTheOperationOfSummationIsDulyAndTotallyDefined 
"

(-) is the same, but with "Summation" changed to  
"AdditiveInverseAndSummation"

the `do` construct ought to be renamed  
"doThisMonadicComputationForMePleaseByDesugaringThisConvienentNotationAndTurningItIntoASequenceOfBindFunctionsAndLambdaAbstractionsSuchThatMyIntendedMeaningInFactIsReflected 
"

Further, things like "unsafePerformIO" is not nearly descriptive  
enough, however, I leave it's appropriate renaming as an exercise to  
the reader...

/Joe

On Nov 22, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote:

> Guideline:
>
> NEVER, *never ever*, use 'length' ***unless you really want to know  
> the exact length of a
> list***
>
> Proposal:
> rename 'length' to  
> 'yesIReallyWantToKnowTheExactLengthOfThisListSoPleaseCalculateItForMe'
> to reduce performance bugs caused by naive uses of length.
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