On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:57:58PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: >> Andrew Coppin wrote: >> >>> Oh well, the problem is easily fixed... *sigh* >> >> I doubt that anybody minds having you talk about Haskell. You've been >> responsible for spawning a lot of interesting threads. > > [And that one about compression that's still going on somewhere... lol!] > >> All I would suggest is that you take your cue from the other people who >> post to the list, and try a few tactics before you post: >> >> - If you have a chatty one-line comment, do 2,000 other people need to see >> it? > > Mmm. This is why I prefer NNTP. (If a thread becomes tangent, everybody > just marks it "ignore" and they don't have to waste time downloading it or > reading it.) But yeah, point taken...
>> - If you have a question to ask, try to spend 2 minutes with Google or the >> Haskell wiki to find the anwer. > > I continue to be surprised at the things that don't seem to be on the > Wiki... Google is typically no help at all with anything Haskell-related, > because Haskell is so completely obscure. The various haddoc documentation > is also frustratingly sparse in places. (E.g., Control.Concurrent.STM.TVar > contains *nothing* but terse type signatures. And concurrent programming is > already a tricky thing to get right.) Some things seem to be "well known" > yet not actually written down anywhere - e.g., the finer points of using > "seq" to make stuff go faster. That's just a known haddock bug. Had you asked instead of suffering in silence, we would have told you that you can work around it by looking at the GHC.Conc docs. > But sure, I do like to try to puzzle a thing out first before posting here. > (If something else, I kind of enjoy a challenge...) > >> - Join us on #haskell on IRC. It's extremely chatty, and you'll be >> welcome. > > Not in my experience, no. > > (Maybe I ask the wrong way... but almost everybody seems to simply ignore > me. Actually, usually when I go there absolutely nobody is speaking at all. > What time zone do these people live in?) You were just unlucky. 50% of the time #haskell is silent, the other 50% it's intolerably noisy. Stefan
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