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

[Matthew Walton]

Henning Thielemann wrote:
> 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.

Very interesting. It would be nice to have reasoning for the n+k 
patterns thing. Guidelines that say 'don't do this' with no reason are 
far more confusing than no guidelines at all.