<div dir="ltr">I am a gamer. Table top RPGs, war games, board games, etc. Since my laptop is pen-based, I has been handier to keep it at the table than paper. As a result, I have been experimenting with making dice rollers to have yet another item not needed on the table. Sure, it takes away some of the tradition, but it makes for carrying fewer things. I have written various dice roll simulators in xblite, ruby and some other dynamics, but this seems like an interesting exercise to try in Haskell.<br>
<br>My first goal is to figure out how to get the command-line arguments. As I did with the other languages, my first program in this development simply retrieved the arguments and printed them. So, here it is.<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">import System.Environment</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">main = do</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> args <- getArgs</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> print args</span><br clear="all"></div><br>Very simple and to the point. Now I need to dig into the manual and figure out the next simple progression...taking 2 arguments and doing something to them akin to:<br>
<br><font face="courier new,monospace">roll 1 6<br><br><font face="arial,sans-serif">This would roll 1, 6-sided die, or 1d6 in gamer terms and print the result.<br><br>I figure the best way to learn a new language is to apply it something I might actually use it for.<br>
</font></font><br>-- <br>Chad Wilson
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