[Haskell-beginners] type def messes up

[Daniel Fischer]

On Saturday 26 June 2010 21:27:20, prad wrote:
> for instance, i'm going through rex page's "two dozen short lessons in
> haskell" from uni of oklahoma.

Wow, that's even pre-Haskell98.
It refers to the Haskell-1.3 report.
There have been many changes in the language since then.
It might have become pretty unusable by now, perhaps you should try another 
tutorial (YAHT [although that is quite old too, many of the function it 
says are in the Prelude aren't anymore] or LYAH for example).