[Haskell-beginners] about the pattern matching

[Raeck Zhao]

hi, good ... morning : )
I am just confused by the following code

> oneOnly :: [Int]
> oneOnly = [1]
> isOneOnly :: [Int] -> Bool
> isOneOnly oneOnly = True
> isOneOnly tester = False

what I want to do is to define a 'type' oneOnly as [1] and use it on 
the pattern matching in function isOneOnly. But it does not work as
I expect:

When I type

isOneOnly [1] 

it will be  True  which is the result I expect but for

is OneOnly [1,2]

the result keeps True, it seems the second pattern has been ignored,
I think I try to achieve the purpose in a wrong way, any suggestion?

Thanks and Merry Christmas

Best wishes,
Raeck

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