[Haskell-cafe] First time haskell - parse error!

[Paul Johnson]

Thats because you can't put a "where" in a "then" clause.  Move the 
"where" stuff to the end of the function.

On 09/03/10 19:04, boblettoj wrote:
> Hi, i am getting an error when trying to compile this part of my program, its
> my first time using haskell and as lovely as it is it didn't give me very
> much to go on in the error message!
>
> <code>score :: String ->  String ->  String
> score [s] [] = false
> score [s] [g] =
> 	if valid 4 g
> 	then (s1 ++ s2 ++ s3 ++ s4) where
> 		s1 = "Golds "
> 		s2 = show (gold s g)
> 		s3 = ", Silvers "
> 		s4 = show (silver s g)
> 	else "Bad Guess"</code>
>
> when i try to compile it says: test.hs 63:29: parse error on input 'where'
> (its the line beginning with 'then')
> Anybody got any ideas whats going on?
> thanks!
>