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I suppose if I understood Haskell better, this might make more sense. Corollary: If this is used in a language other than Haskell, it will only be understood by those who know Haskell.

Robert Harvey
– Robert Harvey

2012-08-21 17:59:13 +00:00
Commented Aug 21, 2012 at 17:59
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Six years later, I am a different programmer, with slightly more knowledge of Haskell things. I no longer endorse this answer, haha. I guess my idea at the time was to use the word "maybe" to signify that the function handles some sort of optionality. I still do that sometimes (e.g. Option[A] => B is called maybeToB)

Mark Canlas
– Mark Canlas

2018-07-18 14:26:26 +00:00
Commented Jul 18, 2018 at 14:26

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