Tiny Identifier Dictionary: Difference between revisions
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! Domain | ! Domain | ||
! Description | ! Description | ||
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| e, env | |||
| environment | |||
| Compilers, interpreters and other language processors | |||
| An environment binding identifiers to something | |||
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| f | | f | ||
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| Higher-order programming | | Higher-order programming | ||
| A function of some sort | | A function of some sort | ||
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| i | |||
| identifier | |||
| language processors | |||
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| i,j,k | |||
| index | |||
| Data structures | |||
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|- | |||
| k | |||
| key | |||
| Data structures | |||
| Similar to an index, used with data structures mapping keys to values | |||
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| n,m | | n,m | ||
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| type | | type | ||
| Compilers, type-checkers etc | | Compilers, type-checkers etc | ||
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| v | |||
| value | |||
| Data structures, interpreters, ... | |||
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Revision as of 20:02, 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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e, env | environment | Compilers, interpreters and other language processors | An environment binding identifiers to something |
f | functor | ||
f,g,h | function | Higher-order programming | A function of some sort |
i | identifier | language processors | |
i,j,k | index | Data structures | |
k | key | Data structures | Similar to an index, used with data structures mapping keys to values |
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 | |
v | value | Data structures, interpreters, ... | |
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 |