On Wednesday 21 December 2005 16:49, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
> On 12/21/05, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
> > > Beginners know that too. In fact, they often think that practical
> > > applications need far more IO than they really do! So to
> > > insinuate even slightly that Haskell is "bad at IO" by avoiding
> > > it for two thirds of a book, is really going to inforce the idea
> > > that Haskell isn't a practical language for practical
> > > applications.
> > > It's easily remedied by teaching them a little IO up front (to
> > > show them it's not scary), and then leaving it alone for a while,
> > > having a more thorugough treatment of it later on.
> >
> > You can show them this on the first page:
> >
> > main = do
> > x <- getLine()
> > print my_program(x)
>
> Well, more like
>
> main = do x <- getLine
> print (my_program x)
This:
main = do
x <- getLine
print (my_program x)
would be correct too. (Just to make it clear that the main point was not
the different layout but the parentheses: Haskell uses them only to
indicate precedence, they are not required around function arguments.)
Ben
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