Good morning,
Take a look at the following - it comes from Graham Hutton's book: "Programming in Haskell" - see link: http://horna.org.ua/books/fp-papers/Hutton,%20Graham%20-%20Programming%20in%20Haskell.pdf
 
qsort :: (Ord a) => [a] -> [a]
qsort [] = []
qsort (x:xs) = qsort smaller ++ [x] ++ qsort larger
               where
                   smaller = [a|a<-xs, a <= x]
                   larger   = [a|a<-xs, a >   x]
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Anckaert
To: beginners@haskell.org
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 2:46 AM
Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Beginners issue with 'Why Haskell matters' example code

Hey everyone

I'm new on the list here and just started out learning Haskell and functional programming. I have over 12 years experience programming in various languages, from C to Python.

I started out with the Why Haskell matters paper (http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Why_Haskell_Matters) and ran into a problem with the code below. It's discussed in the paper but when I save it to test.hs and load it into ghci, I get the following output:

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[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( test.hs, interpreted )

test.hs:6:22: parse error on input `='
Failed, modules loaded: none.

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Could someone give a pointer on where my error lies?

qsort [] = []
qsort (x:xs) = qsort less ++ [x] ++ qsort more
    where less = filter (<x) xs
        more = filter (>=x) xs

--
Kind regards
Michael Anckaert <michael.anckaert@sinax.be>
http://www.sinax.be


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