On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Shishir Srivastava <shishir.srivastava@gmail.com> wrote:
I am trying to run the following from the GHCi command prompt which results in parse error.

ghci is not ghc, and requires `let`
 

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Prelude> :{
Prelude| foo :: Maybe String
Prelude| foo = do
Prelude|     x <- Just 3
Prelude|     y <- Just "!"
Prelude|     Just (show x ++ y)
Prelude| :}

<interactive>:145:5: parse error on input `='
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Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Shishir 

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