Lennart Augustsson wrote: > I have replied on his blog, but I'll repeat the gist of it here. > Why is there a fear of using existing terminology that is exact? > Why do people want to invent new words when there are already > existing ones with the exact meaning that you want? If I see Monoid I > know what it is, if I didn't know I could just look on Wikipedia. > If I see Appendable I can guess what it might be, but exactly what > does it mean?
I would suggest that having to look things up slows people down and might distract them from learning other, perhaps more useful, things about the language. Ganesh ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html ============================================================================== _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe