Comment by whytevuhuni
13 days ago
> I mean, how else would you call the arguments of > splitAt :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> [[a]]
Those don't seem to be names of parameters, but rather of types. It's missing parameter names entirely.
I spent a good 2 minutes looking at that signature trying to figure it out (and I've read some Haskell tutorials so I'm at least familiar with the syntax). This would've helped:
def split_by<T>(separator: T, list: List[T]) -> List[List[T]]
`sep`, `separator`, `delim`, `delimiter` would've been good names.
> Those don't seem to be names of parameters, but rather of types. It's missing parameter names entirely.
The rest of the definition is at the end, to see it as a whole:
To clarify, I assumed that by using the constraint `Eq a` and the name splitAt there was no need for extra clarification in the names of the parameters but apparently I was wrong.
I think some of the confusion is because you're referring to the type variables as parameters. Parameters and type variables are not the same thing. A is a type variable, X is a parameter in your example.
No, you're right. It is perfectly clear from the type signature