[Haskell-beginners] Checking if a Stack is Empty

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:48 AM, doaltan <doaltan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I have this stack data structure :
> data Stack = Empty | Element Char Stack deriving Show
> I want to check if it is equal to "Empty"
> When I try something like this :
> "a = Empty" or "a = (Empty)" in a haskell file and then write this on ghci
> : "a = Empty"
>

Have you studied any Haskell tutorials yet? Usually you want to use a
pattern match, not an equality test; if you must for some reason use an
equality test, you need an Eq instance (as the error message tells you).

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