[Haskell-cafe] Silly question

[Bayley, Alistair]

s> From: Joel Reymont [mailto:joelr1 at gmail.com] 
> 
> How do I run z "a" from ghci or the IO monad?
> 
> module Foo where
> 
> import qualified Data.Map as M
> import Control.Monad
> import Control.Monad.List
> import Prelude hiding ((!!))
> 
> (!!) :: (Ord k, MonadPlus m) => [M.Map k v] -> k -> m v
> (!!) maps key = msum $ map (M.lookup key) maps
> x :: M.Map String Int = M.empty
> y :: M.Map String Int = M.fromList [("a", 1)]
> z m = [x, y] !! m


There are a couple of ways, depending on how you want to run it through
MonadPlus, I think (although I don't understand your code much):

main = do
  let a :: [Int]; a = z "a"
  print a
  b <- z "a"
  print b

*Foo> main  <<- running main from ghci
[1]
1


Or directly the the ghci prompt:
*Foo> z "a"
*Foo> :t it
it :: Int
*Foo> print it
1
*Foo> z "a" :: [Int]
[1]


Did you know about the "it" variable in ghci? It holds the last expression
typed at the prompt.

Alistair.
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