I'd love to help newbies get the hang of Haskell without having to jump in the deep (and smart-infested) end first.  And I'd love for people to keep writing smart code for non-newbies to enjoy.

Perhaps a practical suggestion would be some wiki pages devoted to pointing out code with various learning qualities, to help haskellers of all levels of experience learn effectively.

  - Conal

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo@libero.it> wrote:
Jonathan Cast ha scritto:
[...]


I think, in general, the best way to document the purpose of the
function is

   -- | Split a function into a sequence of partitions of specified
lenth
   takeList :: [Int] -> [a] -> [[a]]


Note that I was not speaking about the best way to document a function.

I was speaking about the best way to write a function, so that it may help someone who is learning Haskell.

> [...]

Manlio

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