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Ahh, it gets really interesting when you read code that does have named variables… and they’re misleading.

A strength of functional idioms is that they expose the structure of the code in a way that a name - even a well chosen name - can only hope to achieve. Often, succinctly and comprehensively. At that point you stop caring so much about variable names. They’re still there but you need them less




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