[Haskell-beginners] Parse error

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Shishir Srivastava <
shishir.srivastava at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to run the following from the GHCi command prompt which
> results in parse error.
>

ghci is not ghc, and requires `let`


>
> --------------
> Prelude> :{
> Prelude| foo :: Maybe String
> Prelude| foo = do
> Prelude|     x <- Just 3
> Prelude|     y <- Just "!"
> Prelude|     Just (show x ++ y)
> Prelude| :}
>
> <interactive>:145:5: parse error on input `='
> ---------------
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Shishir
>
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