Cristiano Paris <fr...@theshire.org> wrote: > I was a bit surprised by the strong reaction about my citation of > unsafePerformIO. Maybe it'd useful, for the future, to write a > document explaining how to help newbies properly, maybe putting it in > the mailing list charter. > 1) Tell them about interact. 2) If they're not satisfied, or already spoiled by the functions they want to use, explain bind wrt. IO, then do-notation. You don't want them to get puzzled by missing returns, or think that it's a keyword. 3) Let them catch up on monads by themselves, there's no need to confuse people with explanations of things they already understand.
In other words: 1) Explain Pointed 2) Explain Functor 3) Explain Applicative 4) Explain Monad -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe