[Haskell-cafe] Line noise

[Stephan Friedrichs]

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).

> 
> [...]
> 

//Stephan

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