[Haskell-beginners] Misc items

[Edward Z. Yang]

Hello,

This is because -- appended by a symbol results in the dashes
being parsed as an operator.  Add a space.

Cheers,
Edward

Excerpts from KMandPJLynch's message of Thu Aug 30 10:39:14 -0400 2012:
> Good morning,
> 
> A comment such as [which begins with -- followed immediately by a period '.' - see next line]:
>  --... 
> creates the syntax error:
> ch11.hs:228:1: parse error on input `--...'
> 
> I'd appreciate any advice.
> 
> Good day
>