[Haskell-cafe] Bug in "Haskell for C programmers" tutorial?

[Cale Gibbard]

Yes, it's a bug in the tutorial, on both accounts. Hopefully Eric is
reading this list :)

 - Cale

On 31/12/05, Erik de Castro Lopo <hc-erikd at mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm working through the "Haskell for C programmers" tutorial
> > and in this section":
>
> Now :
>
>     http://www.haskell.org/~pairwise/intro/section3.html#part3
>
> has the following:
>
>     showLen :: [a] -> String
>     showLen lst = (show (theLen)) ++ (if theLen == 1 then " item" else " items")
>         where
>         theLen = len lst
>
> Shouldn't "len" in the last line be "length"?
>
> Erik
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