Hi All,

I’m a newcomer to Haskell and mailing list, so I am not sure if my question is proper.

I use notepad++ to learn Haskell now. Are there any suggestions or conventions which can help me learn Haskell?

Best regards, Juncheng

Hi Juncheng, I think for learning "code", as in writing nice code, get yourself the Hlinter [1] running. It really spots great improvements and some very haskelly ways. For Learning purposes I would suggest that you first "try it your way" step by step, and check every step with hlint. So: fun1 -> Hlint -> fun2 -> Hlint Additionally you might want to enable a spell-checker (like, a normal one, for english). Last thing you might find very useful is a local Hoogle [2] install. It's amazingly convenient if you want to know, e.g. the function which gives a length of a list, but you don't remember if it was len, length, size, count ... So you just search for [a] -> Int and voila. Second Hoogle can help you find similar functions to what you are currently building, often you are implementing something that is somewhere as a higher order function already. best regards, Leonhard [1] Hlint: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlint [2] Hoogle: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hoogle