Rafael Cunha de Almeida wrote:
This e-mail is offtopic, but I suppose being a little offtopic every now and then isn't that bad, specially if the subject is interesting. So, here I go.
It's the cafe'. Very little is strictly off-topic here, and certainly not this. I'm happy to help anyone who's trying to learn, but I will not willingly subvert anyone's classroom rules, as a matter of academic honesty. I think that matters at any level of school. I accept that it can't be enforced perfectly, or anywhere near so. I didn't mean to accuse the original poster, and I trust I didn't come accross that way. I don't think it's a bad idea to point out that an anonymous question like this one may look suspicious, or that many instructors follow this forum. None of that should give offense. But I also provided some hints. I think a good and fun way to help with problems like that is to iteratively guide someone to their answer, instead of giving it to them straight-up. Just to be clear, I also have no criticism of the other replies. Anyone giving voluntary help should and will apply their own rules.
The only reason people would want the answer of an assignment instead of actually doing it themselves is if they don't care about actually doing it. That is, they don't want to learn haskell, they just want to pass a class. In that case, do we really want to _make_ them learn?
In that case I have no interest in forcing them to learn or in helping them get a grade. But I'm always optimistic that someone's willing to learn. I've been proven wrong, but not often. Cheers, John