import Prelude ([](..))

[MartinSjögren]

fre 2003-11-07 klockan 11.42 skrev Simon Peyton-Jones:
> | Well, I don't want to redefine list syntax, quite the opposite. I want
> | to use regular lists together with my stuff (and "my stuff" doesn't
> | include lists at all). So, this is not possible? (Well, it was in ghc 5,
> | but I guess that ghc 5 is wrong, then)
> 
> Yes it is possible!  You can't redefine list syntax -- it always means "lists".
> And it will continue to work regardless of what you import.  Just omit
>	import Prelude( [](..) )

Ah! I see. I was getting "constructor not in scope: `:'" in ghc5, but in
ghc6 it does indeed work.

So, the bottom line here is that with ghc6 I *cannot* have the import,
but in ghc5 I *must* have it? Gah.

Thanks for your help.


/Martin
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