[Haskell-cafe] Alternative name for return

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz>wrote:

> I bet you can find an abundance of C programmers who think that
> "strcmp" is an intuitive name for string comparison (rather than
> compression, say).
>

Them and a small and slowly shrinking group of folks who find it intuitive
because obviously only the first 6 characters of an imported function are
significant :)

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