Hi
* Give tips on how to answer questions
+ Ok. we can put up an article here. Some suggestions: - No questions are bad questions - Code should come with examples of how to run it - Solutions with unsafePerformIO should be discouraged (moreso ;) - Be polite! (we're good at this)
I'd say our worst feature is tending to give solutions which are not "simple" Haskell, but make use of advanced features. When a beginner asks a question, sometimes the answer requires GADT's, Template Haskell, rank-2 types etc. However this is usually because they asked the wrong question - thinking in an imperative frame of mind. Often it would be better to peel back to the original problem, where the answer is more likely to be pure neat Haskell. I guess unsafePerformIO is just one instance of this. Thanks Neil