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I think this is kinda my point. Haskell folks like to show unrealistically small code samples that don't even do the small thing they claim, where one-letter names are kinda defensible, and then you realize that that's how they name everything. Since you like sorts, have you seen a Haskell implementation of quicksort that spells out the word "pivot"? This seems like a small ask. Surely someone has done it. Before typing this, I assumed it couldn't possibly be as bad as I remembered and that I was falling prey to confirmation bias, but in fact 9 out of the top 9 results (one is a dead link, which is why there aren't 10) for "haskell quicksort" on Google use a single-character variable name for it (n, p, or x). As a side note, 7 out of 9 of them exhibit neither the time nor space complexity promised by quicksort. (I admit that two of them appeared to be the same code - call it 8/8 and 6/8, respectively, if that seems unfair.) Finally, one of the two that does attempt to perform it in place (which is far more complicated) contains variables named lb, ub, mub, ma, and, my favorite, iLTj. Good luck figuring out how that code works. This is the thing I'm talking about, and it is not an isolated example. I like Haskell as a language! It has a lot of cool ideas. But people who learn it are often made into much worse programmers for having been exposed to it, and it is because of stuff like this. It's some weird community standards problem. |
"i less than j". Not hard to guess if you know about "LT" in the standard library.