Interesting discussion going on over on Krzysztof's blog. We recently changed our guidance for generic type parameter naming from recommending single letter names to more descriptive ones. I personally think we as programmers simply need to discover the rest of the Unicode character set...

E.g.

class IList<α> {}

class IDictionary<α, β> {}

class Converter<α, β> { }

And so on. Of course I am being flippant, but I'm not a huge fan of this change. I prefer clear and concise, and actually like that there is a mathematical feel to generics. With that said, I suppose it might be less approachable, and Ada programs did, in fact, tend to use more descriptive generic type labels. I'd call that a historical precedent against my preference. :)

I wonder what Don thinks.