[Haskell-beginners] ghci access to .hs functions

[Brent Yorgey]

It's hard to tell just looking at what you have given.  Can you show
us the exact contents of your .hs file?

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:17:09PM -0700, prad wrote:
> in an effort to figure out type declarations i thought i'd let ghci do
> the work.
> 
> so i wrote a program:
> 
> import ...
> main = do
>     ...
> func1
> func2
> 
> now when i load this into ghci i can't to :t func1 etc and get a not in
> scope error
> 
> however, if i put a return () onto the end of main:
> 
> import ...
> main = do
>     ...
>     return ()
> func1
> func2
> 
> the functions are in scope of ghci and i can find out the types.
> 
> so what is happening here? i understand that return is different in
> haskell than in other languages, but i don't understand just what it is
> doing. :(
> 
> -- 
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> prad
> 
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