September 2003 - Haskell-Cafe

RE: Help on Homework help
by Simon Peyton-Jones 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

Good write-up. One suggestion: it'd be good to suggest *strongly* that people only send their homework-style questions to Haskell-café, not to the main Haskell list. Given the existence of the fomer, using the latter is likely to irritate, which isn't likely to elicit helpful responses. I know I could make the change myself, but you'll do it better :-) Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: haskell-cafe-admin(a)haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-admin@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Andrew | J Bromage | Sent: 03 September 2003 06:52 | To: haskell-cafe(a)haskell.org | Subject: Help on Homework help | | G'day all. | | In response to the recent poll, and because I promised to, here is a | first attempt at a page to direct people to, should they ask for | homework help in the wrong way: | | http://haskell.org/hawiki/HomeworkHelp | | Comments, criticisms and contributions are most welcome. | | Cheers, | Andrew Bromage | _______________________________________________ | Haskell-Cafe mailing list | Haskell-Cafe(a)haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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Help on Homework help
by Andrew J Bromage 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

G'day all. In response to the recent poll, and because I promised to, here is a first attempt at a page to direct people to, should they ask for homework help in the wrong way: http://haskell.org/hawiki/HomeworkHelp Comments, criticisms and contributions are most welcome. Cheers, Andrew Bromage

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Poll: How to respond to homework questions
by Tom Pledger 02 Sep '03

02 Sep '03

Hi. I'm curious about what the people on this list consider appropriate, as responses to homework questions. Even if there isn't a consensus, it may be interesting to see how opinion is divided. Please consider the following. (A) Give a perfect answer. (B) Give a subtly flawed answer. (C) Give an obfuscated answer. (D) Give a critique of what the questioner has tried so far. (E) Give relevant general advice without answering the specific question. I mean them to include giving references, e.g. a Wiki URL to relevant general advice would count as (E). Which of those do you approve of? Which do you disapprove of? Please email me a concise vote, e.g. OK: B D E Not OK: A and I'll post a collated result next week. - Tom

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IO StateTransformer with an escape clause
by Thomas L. Bevan 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Hi, I'd like some help building an IO StateTransformer which can be escaped midway through without losing the state accummulated up to that point. I tried constructing a StateT s MaybeIO a monad but the state is lost when the rest of the monad collapses. Tom

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Haskell 6.0 install
by Mark Espinoza 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

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