Re: [Haskell-beginners] don't understand this

Hi. On 27 June 2011 16:33, Roelof Wobben wrote:

let lucky 7 = "Lucky number seven" let lucky x = "Sorry, you're out of luck, pal!"

But if I do lucky 7 or lucky 2 I always get the last sentence.

The second let binding shadows the first one. Try: let lucky 7 = "Lucky!"; lucky x = "No luck this time." Or even better, write this in a file and load it into ghci. lucky 7 = "Lucky!" lucky x = "No luck this time." HTH, Ozgur