Re: [Haskell-beginners] Beginners issue with 'Why Haskell matters' example code

Hi Michael, Is line 6 the " more = filter (>= x) xs" line? Try lining up the word 'more' with the word 'less' above it - and if you can't seem to get it to work, try making sure you're using all spaces and not tabs to indent! HTH, Arlen On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 08:46 +0100, Michael Anckaert wrote:

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:

------------------------ [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

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