Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
Andrew Coppin wrote:
Oh well, the problem is easily fixed... *sigh*
I doubt that anybody minds having you talk about Haskell. You've been responsible for spawning a lot of interesting threads.
[And that one about compression that's still going on somewhere... lol!]
All I would suggest is that you take your cue from the other people who post to the list, and try a few tactics before you post:
- If you have a chatty one-line comment, do 2,000 other people need to see it?
Mmm. This is why I prefer NNTP. (If a thread becomes tangent, everybody just marks it "ignore" and they don't have to waste time downloading it or reading it.) But yeah, point taken...
- If you have a question to ask, try to spend 2 minutes with Google or the Haskell wiki to find the anwer.
I continue to be surprised at the things that don't seem to be on the Wiki... Google is typically no help at all with anything Haskell-related, because Haskell is so completely obscure. The various haddoc documentation is also frustratingly sparse in places. (E.g., Control.Concurrent.STM.TVar contains *nothing* but terse type signatures. And concurrent programming is already a tricky thing to get right.) Some things seem to be "well known" yet not actually written down anywhere - e.g., the finer points of using "seq" to make stuff go faster. But sure, I do like to try to puzzle a thing out first before posting here. (If something else, I kind of enjoy a challenge...)
- Join us on #haskell on IRC. It's extremely chatty, and you'll be welcome.
Not in my experience, no. (Maybe I ask the wrong way... but almost everybody seems to simply ignore me. Actually, usually when I go there absolutely nobody is speaking at all. What time zone do these people live in?)