[Haskell wikibook] WikiBook Haskell

Discussion:

laura_huber

2014-01-29 10:58:18 UTC

Hi,

does it make sense to post here my comments reg. the WikiBook? I am currently learning Haskell and find it quite nice and in a good way structured, but nevertheless some things are still with questionmarks, eg. how to read the signature properly?

The samples I find great and I have some ideas as well for additional resp. variation, e.g. Why is cons of a function cons8 n= n:8 not possible, but n:[8] or with the tuple (head n, tail n) works, but if I want to have only (firstelement, lastelement) (Int, Int) How to...

The PDF has also some minor issue, e.g. page 38 empty.

But all gets me back to the initial question: Is this the proper place for adding remarks?

laura

Eric Kow

2014-01-29 11:16:04 UTC

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Hi Laura,

I think this is a good place for comments on the wikibook.
It's sometimes helpful to check the discussion page on the web too.
The advantage of the mailing list is the natural archiving.

Note that you might have more luck just going in and making changes
yourself if you feel up to it.
Also, I doubt anybody would be offended if you annotated the pages
directly with comments about what is confusing or not.

I'm not aware of what's been going on with the wikibook lately, by the way,
who's editing it for example.

Was just pleasantly surprised to see some (non-spam) activity on this list.

Cheers,

Eric

Post by laura_huber
Hi,
does it make sense to post here my comments reg. the WikiBook? I am currently learning Haskell and find it quite nice and in a good way structured, but nevertheless some things are still with questionmarks, eg. how to read the signature properly?
The samples I find great and I have some ideas as well for additional resp. variation, e.g. Why is cons of a function cons8 n= n:8 not possible, but n:[8] or with the tuple (head n, tail n) works, but if I want to have only (firstelement, lastelement) (Int, Int) How to...
The PDF has also some minor issue, e.g. page 38 empty.
But all gets me back to the initial question: Is this the proper place for adding remarks?
laura
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Daniel Mlot

2014-04-13 06:17:04 UTC

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Hello Laura,

First of all, this is an horribly late reply, and I'm sorry for that.
Eric's advice about comments, and about "just going in and making
changes", is perfectly sound of course. As for current activity in the
Wikibook, I try to, at least a couple times per year, spend some time
there reviewing pending changes, performing general maintenance and
writing some new content. I am not aware of other active (or
sporadically active, like myself) regulars right now, though there is a
steady trickle of helpful changes by visitors.

I replied to some of your comments in the talk pages, in case you still
have an use for them after so long. You can find the replies more
quickly than through the regular interface by going to
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Duplode/Haskell/Public_watchlist and
using the "Related changes" link in the sidebar, under Tools (that page,
by the way, is a crude measure to make changes to book talk pages a
little easier to monitor, given the inflexibility of MediaWiki in that
respect).

Cheers,

Daniel

Post by Eric Kow
Hi Laura,
I think this is a good place for comments on the wikibook.
It's sometimes helpful to check the discussion page on the web too.
The advantage of the mailing list is the natural archiving.
Note that you might have more luck just going in and making changes
yourself if you feel up to it.
Also, I doubt anybody would be offended if you annotated the pages
directly with comments about what is confusing or not.
I'm not aware of what's been going on with the wikibook lately, by the way,
who's editing it for example.
Was just pleasantly surprised to see some (non-spam) activity on this list.
Cheers,
Eric