Rafael Cunha de Almeida wrote: > This e-mail is offtopic, but I suppose being a little offtopic every now > and then isn't that bad, specially if the subject is interesting. So, > here I go.
It's the cafe'. Very little is strictly off-topic here, and certainly not this. I'm happy to help anyone who's trying to learn, but I will not willingly subvert anyone's classroom rules, as a matter of academic honesty. I think that matters at any level of school. I accept that it can't be enforced perfectly, or anywhere near so. I didn't mean to accuse the original poster, and I trust I didn't come accross that way. I don't think it's a bad idea to point out that an anonymous question like this one may look suspicious, or that many instructors follow this forum. None of that should give offense. But I also provided some hints. I think a good and fun way to help with problems like that is to iteratively guide someone to their answer, instead of giving it to them straight-up. Just to be clear, I also have no criticism of the other replies. Anyone giving voluntary help should and will apply their own rules. > The only reason people would want the answer of an assignment instead of > actually doing it themselves is if they don't care about actually doing > it. That is, they don't want to learn haskell, they just want to pass a > class. In that case, do we really want to _make_ them learn? In that case I have no interest in forcing them to learn or in helping them get a grade. But I'm always optimistic that someone's willing to learn. I've been proven wrong, but not often. Cheers, John _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
