[Haskell-beginners] Parse error: naked expression at top level

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 17:47:51 CEST 2011


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:30, Roelof Wobben <rwobben at hotmail.com> wrote:

> replicate :: Int -> a -> [a]
> replicate a xs = [xs | x' <= a <--xs]
>
> replicate 3 True
>

That last line is fine at a GHCi prompt but not in a program.  (Files loaded
by ghci are not scripts!  They are treated the same way as program files fed
to ghc or runhaskell.)

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