On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Isaac Dupree wrote: > rather difficult, because beginner questions can easily spiral into curiosity > about quite theoretical stuff, with no clear point of separation. And I'm not > sure we want to avoid having that kind of curiosity, but I suppose it might > always intimidate some newbies: a predicament I'm not sure we can solve by a > mere technical measure of splitting up lists. >
On a newbie list, it's easier to remember to give more of a beginner's guide to tough topics - or to point out when 'teachers' should take it to -cafe. > when I was a newbie I was intimidated by the sheer volume of Haskell-Cafe, > never mind whether I could understand it or not :-) but also the relatively > few amount of beginner questions with beginner answers when looking in the > list archives, probably made me less sure whether my questions would belong > there. > That's another good reason for such a list. I suspect a good many "why are things like this?" questions would be better handled somewhere like that, too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire. Most of the time you just get burnt worse though. _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell