[Haskell-cafe] extreme newbie: hugs prompt vs load module

[Shao Chih Kuo]

You can always load things inside ghci with:

:m

i.e.

Prelude> :m List
Prelude List> :m Control.Concurrent
Prelude Control.Concurrent> :m Control.Concurrent List
Prelude List Control.Concurrent>

George Young wrote:
> [linux, ghci 6.4.3.20060820, hugs May 2006]
>
> I have just started learning Haskell.  I have hugs and ghci under
> linux, and I'm going through the Gentle Introduction to
> Haskell<http://www.haskell.org/tutorial>, so far through section 4,
> "case expressions and pattern matching".  I'm a python programmer, with
> background in maclisp, scheme, T, C, C++, and a little J.  
>
> I'm confused about what sort of things I can type at the interpreter
> prompt, and what things have to be loaded as a module.  I keep trying
> to treat the prompt like a lisp or python REPL, which is obviously
> wrong.  Can someone set me straight?
>
> Is there another tutorial that might be more appropriate for me?
>
> I am finding haskell quite appealing.  I hope to start writing real (if
> small) applications to do some data analysis from our Postgres DB.  Any
> hints?
>
> --George Young
>