Difference between revisions of "Tiny Identifier Dictionary"
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Revision as of 19:48, 26 March 2010
Haskellers often love their tiny identifiers, especially single letters and especially when they wrote the code. Other haskellers and especially non-haskellers hate them because they don't seem to mean anything, even when they do. Hopefully this dictionary can help!
Identifier(s) | Expansion | Domain | Description |
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f | functor | ||
f,g,h | function | Higher-order programming | A function of some sort |
n,m | (natural?) number | Generally either a natural or an integer | |
m | monad | ||
t | time | Simulation, interaction, domains involving time | |
t | type | Compilers, type-checkers etc | |
x,y,z | thingy, other thingy, wossname | Abstract code | Commonly used when we know nothing about the value in question |
xs,ys,zs | (list of) lhingies | Abstract code | Lists of arbitrary values, or sometimes another collection type such as a set |