[Haskell-cafe] Operator cheat sheet, and monadic style q

2008-11-22 Thread Owen Smith
Greetings, I'm a longtime Haskell-curious programmer who, after a few aborted attempts at getting started and long nights staring at academic papers, finally managed to get the bug. I've been pleased with my progress so far, but a couple of things have bugged me enough to seek advice from the rest

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Operator cheat sheet, and monadic style q

2008-11-22 Thread Andrew Coppin
Owen Smith wrote: 1. Contending with the use of frequently unfamiliar non-alphanumeric operators has been an uphill battle for me. I think the main reason for this is that I've had no luck in Googling up their definitions (my primary approach for dealing with every other unknown in the Haskell un

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Operator cheat sheet, and monadic style q

2008-11-22 Thread Max Rabkin
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Owen Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a longtime Haskell-curious programmer who, after a few aborted > attempts at getting started and long nights staring at academic > papers, finally managed to get the bug. I've been pleased with my > progress so far, but a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Operator cheat sheet, and monadic style q

2008-11-22 Thread Luke Palmer
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Owen Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. There's a lot I need to learn about good Haskell style, especially > coming from a C++ background. Even my experience in Lisp seems to > result in way more parentheses than Haskell coders are comfortable > with. :-) In part