[Haskell-beginners] don't understand this

[Ozgur Akgun]

Hi.

On 27 June 2011 16:33, Roelof Wobben <rwobben at hotmail.com> wrote:

> let lucky 7 = "Lucky number seven"
>  let lucky x = "Sorry, you're out of luck, pal!"
>
> But if I do lucky 7 or lucky 2 I always get the last sentence.
>

The second let binding shadows the first one. Try:

let lucky 7 = "Lucky!"; lucky x = "No luck this time."

Or even better, write this in a file and load it into ghci.

lucky 7 = "Lucky!"
lucky x = "No luck this time."

HTH,
Ozgur
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