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Comment by wredcoll | Hacker News Reader

It would help a lot if every single racket/scheme example wasn't entirely made of single character variables.

There is a reason for that.

Consider appending two strings in Scheme:

    (string-append s1 s2)

Appending two strings in Scheme:

    (vector-append v1 v2)

Since the type is present in the function name, it would be redundant to include it in the variable name.

This is literally my point. A python example would be like, calling readline to store someone's name into a name variable then printing a string that said "Hello name". Scheme examples are some abstract list manipulations.

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