Suggestion for current haskell wordlist of hangman
SkyBirdSoar opened this issue · comments
Before I begin my case, I would like to present an extract.
[23:48:16] <[k-> DeBot !hangman haskell
[23:48:17] ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ [] 0/12 (haskell)
[23:48:23] <[k-> DeBot Applicative
[23:48:24] ␣␣␣␣at␣pt␣ [licve] 5/12 (haskell)
[23:48:32] <[k-> DeBot Before
[23:48:33] For␣atOpt␣ [licveb] 6/12 (haskell)
[23:48:38] DeBot: s
[23:48:38] For␣atOpts [licveb] 6/12 (haskell)
[23:48:40] <[k-> DeBot m
[23:48:41] FormatOpts [licveb] 6/12 (haskell) You won!
[23:48:41] DeBot: m
[23:48:42] DeBot: m
[23:49:01] <[k-> guess which package it belongs to
[23:49:06] <[k-> and how do you use it
[23:49:16] 1) don't care
[23:49:18] 2) don't care
Here is my stand. At first, I wanted to preserve the list. Now, after reading the first 800 lines
, I don't think it would be a good candidate to express what Haskell is all about.
Firstly, there is little Haskellism
in the first 800 lines. Let me explain:
The reason is because this list is generated for pandoc. The list is really specific to pandoc. A1
is not a common way to name Haskell datatypes. A typeclass that starts with A is Applicative
. A datatype that starts with A is Array. We do not shorten datatype names in Haskell, that is downright awful. We choose meaningful names for our datatypes, that's why there are type synonyms. A List
of Char
s is called a String
, but actually it is a [Char]
. We don't use [Char]
because it does not express what we want to treat it as. Another example would be ids. We would choose to alias Integer
to ID
to make it more meaningful for the programmer. BeginAfter
, BlockIndented
, BlockQuotation
, ContentRow
, DestinationURL
are all highly specific to pandoc. We don't write documentation types all the time in Haskell! That is not our only purpose! Haskell is a general programming language!
Numbers aren't really common when defining Haskell types. Char8
, Word8
are just a few I can think of. Hence, this list is a misrepresentation. Again, this is specific to pandoc.
I would like to propose that the current haskell wordlist be replaced by something more appropriate.
By replace
I mean: the wordlist is preserved until a better alternative is found.
Or another suggestion, rename it to pandoc
.
[00:57:04] DeBot: !hangman haskell
[00:57:04] ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ [] 0/12 (haskell)
[00:57:11] DeBot: Functoid
[00:57:12] T␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ [funcoid] 7/12 (haskell)
[00:57:13] <[k-> :(
[00:57:18] <[k-> you know that wouldnt work
[00:57:27] DeBot: phd
[00:57:28] T␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ [funcoidph] 9/12 (haskell)
[00:57:33] <[k-> DeBot Traversable
[00:57:33] DeBot: 123.
[00:57:33] Table.xml [funcoidph123] 12/12 (haskell) You lost!
[00:57:35] DeBot: academia
This clearly shows that it does not capture the essence of Haskell at all.