[Haskell-cafe] Things to avoid (Was: Top 20 ``things'' to know in Haskell)

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Henning Thielemann wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Bayley, Alistair wrote:
>
> > Were you thinking of something like "[n] Things a Java Programmer Should
> > Know About Ruby" ?
> >   http://jimweirich.tadalist.com/lists/public/14055
> >
> > Perhaps you'd like to start a page on the wiki. A link from here, maybe?
> >   http://haskell.org/hawiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
>
> Is there also a Wiki page about things you should avoid?

Since I couldn't find one, I started one on my own:

http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/ThingsToAvoid

I consider 'length', guards and proper recursion anchors.