Re: '=' and ':' generate errors

"Neil Mitchell" <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:56:51 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.hugs.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi

> Is Hugs98 broken on my system?

No


> test :: Int
> ERROR - Undefined variable "test"

This defines the name test to be an Int, but what is test? Have you
introduced it earlier? Try instead:

> 1 :: Int


> size = 12+13
> ERROR - Syntax error in input (unexpected `=')

You can't do that at the hugs prompt, but you can in a file. In a
command prompt perhaps:

let size = 12+13 in size

Thanks

Neil