getting started with the glasgow haskell compiler

[Simon Marlow]

> I'm just getting started using the glasgow haskell compiler=20
> and when I try to=20
> compile a simple program, named Hello.lhs,  like this:
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> module Main (main) where
> main =3D putStrLn "Hello World"
> end
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> with the command
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> ghc Hello.lhs
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> I get the message on standard output:
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> No definitions in file <perhaps you forgot the '>'s?>

The extension '.lhs' means "Literate Haskell source" which is described
here:

	http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/literate.html

Normal Haskell source files, like the code example you give above,
should be placed in a file with a '.hs' extension.

Cheers,
	Simon