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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/10 Heinrich Apfelmus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apfelmus@quantentunnel.de">apfelmus@quantentunnel.de</a>></span><br>
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<div class="im">Sergey V. Mikhanov wrote:<br>></div></blockquote>
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<div class="im"><span id=""></span><br>><br>> What would you do different (including stylistic changes)? What are<br>> the general comments about efficiency (not of the algorithm, but of<br>> the implementation: for example, is it fine to use break at every<br>
> invocation of doFactors?) and elegance of the solution?<br><br></div>Stylistically, one usually uses shorter variable names in Haskell. </blockquote>
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<div>Sometime too short peraphs? At least, this is one of the things that slows down my understanding of code posted</div>
<div>on this list on or on various haskell tutorial. In any other language I know, programmers learn to give meaningful names to variable and functions, so when one reads a program, one can use the name to remember what the function does. Then one cames to haskell ...</div>
<div>I guess the short names comes from mathematic background, but still ... haskell is already very succint - even more so </div>
<div>when you use pointfree programming - and if one also uses names like a,e,i ( look at Array function definitions ), ...</div>
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<div>Rant apart, I notice that in my own excercises I tend to shorten names, so maybe there is a reason for that.</div>
<div>Nevertheless readability tends to be a big issue in languages used in IT industry, and my feeling is that haskell</div>
<div>tends to err on the laconic side of the balance.</div>
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<div>Out of curiosity, there is any reason why you called the auxiliary function 'go' ?</div>
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<div>Ciao</div>
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