Comment by eru

> Your programmer friend suggested that you should use more intuitive and expressive names for your objects, but p and q are just any measures, and apart from the property you're just now trying to define, they don't have any additional interesting properties that would help you find names more sensible than SomeMeasure and SomeOtherMeasure.

That's common with Haskell variables, too. So longer names would not make the following easier to understand, either:

    map _ [] = []
    map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs