Re: [Haskell-beginners] Meaning of variable'

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

By convention it signals a variant of the function without the tick. Semantically it doesn't mean anything special; you can use ' in an identifier as long as it's not the first character.

Thanks Brandon. Thats what I guessed but I couldn't find a good google search term to confirm that. Cheers, Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter; then ask him or her what recursion is." -- http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/godel-escher-blog.html