[Haskell-cafe] WildCard question

[Ketil Malde]

Paul Cosby <cozbie at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Every time I try to use [underscore] in an definition it says
> something like the symbol /017 is not recognised

Could that be \017, i.e. octal 17 (defined in ASCII as SI, whatever
that may be)?

> Any help suggestions?

Wild guess: Are your files using the same character set as your
Haskell system is expecting?  I know Windows pulls some occasional
stunts with the character set (and occasionally lies about it), but I
wasn't aware that it affected underscore.

-kzm
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