27 Jan
2015
27 Jan
'15
1:57 p.m.
Augustsson, Lennart wrote
A lot of people might have opinions about what is good for beginners, but the only opinions that matter are from those who have actually taught a large number of beginners. I'm not one of them, so I'll keep my beginner opinions to myself.
When I was a beginner, I don't recall having trouble understanding the polymorphic versions, but I was soundly confounded by the apparent redundancy of map/fmap etc. Particularly when the answer was "to make things easier for beginners"! -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Drastic-Prelude-changes-imminent-tp5764... Sent from the Haskell - Libraries mailing list archive at Nabble.com.