[Haskell-cafe] pythags

[Robert Dockins]

On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:02 AM, phiroc at free.fr wrote:

> Hello,
>
> the "Advanced Monads" page in the Haskell Wikibook
> (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Advanced_monads) contains the  
> following
> example of a List Monad
>
> pythags = do
> 	x <- [1..]
> 	y <- [x..]
> 	z <- [y..]
> 	guard (x^2 + y^2 == z^2)
> 	return (x, y, z)
>
> However, whenever you load that function definition into Hugs or  
> GHCi, you get a
> message saying that "guard" is an undefined variable.
>
> Does anyone know why?
>
> Thanks.
>
> phiroc


Add the line


import Control.Monad


to the beginning of your program.  The 'guard' function is not  
automatically in scope.




Rob Dockins

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