Hi,

I'm having a problem with the read function. I thought it took a string and converted it into a value (if there is a conversion). But it doesn't seem to work for me on GHCi

Prelude> read "123"
*** Exception: Prelude.read: no parse

Prelude> read (show 123)

*** Exception: Prelude.read: no parse

There must be something trivial that I'm missing.

Thanks.

-- Russ Abbott