Re: Haskell conventions (was: RE: how to write a simple cat)

[Jan Skibinski]

> I think this kind of thing is valuable... Hungarian notation [1] 
> serves the same purpose in Windows C / C++ programming.  It *is* 
> valuable having canonical variable names for most situations; it reduces
the
> intellectual load on the (human) reader of the code... you don't have to
> check back to the type signature and argument list to figure out what a
> particular variable denotes; it's just obvious from the name.

        But there are some stylistic camps, such as Eiffel's, that
        prefer names with underscores rather than Hungarian notation
        - claiming exactly the same reason: better readability. :-)

        Jan