possible bug?

[Josef Svenningsson]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Jonathon Bell wrote:

> i'm tinkering with the Feb 2001 release of hugs, and came across the
> following problem while attempting to create my own prelude:
>
>  module MyPrelude where
>
>     import Prelude((:))
>
>     hd(x:xs) = x
>     ...
>
> The compiler complains of a syntax error occuring in the import declaration:
> (unexpected symbol ":").

Here's a similar one:

\begin{code}
module Foo where

import List (\\)

apa bepa cepa = bepa \\ cepa
\end{code}

This module gives:
ERROR bug.hs:3 - Syntax error in import declaration (unexpected symbol
"\\")

Both examples are correct haskell programs according to the report.

	/Josef