Alan,
I'd love to help you get started coding in haskell. It sounds like it
might be easier to do interactively though. Can you get on the
#haskell channel on IRC? I'm in and out of there as chessguy and will
be on later tonight.
On Jan 26, 2009, at 5:22 PM, "Alan Cameron"
Hi,
I am indebted to Andrew Wagner for pointing me in the direction of the book http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ Which I now have time to study. Everything was going fine until I got to the section in Getting Started where it gives A Simple Program.
Now as someone who is used to the Windows environment CLI is not my forte. Following instructions which appear to be incomplete I created a file of the program WC.hs but where should it go?
I tried various places until I reread the :? For the :cd command. Ah I said that's what I need to do put it in a folder and change the Dir.
Now I can find the file with the :edit command. Did the same with the file quux.txt same place.
Now run the command $ runghc WC < quux.txt
<interactive>:1:0: parse error on input '$'
What have I done wrong or not done?
It does say "at a shell or command prompt" what's that??
I reverted to the installation instructions provided by GHC for Windows. 2.2 Installing on Windows 2.2.1 Installing GHC on Windows
Checked all that had been done correctly.
Enter the program line 1>
bash$ cat main.hs <interactive>:1:0: parse error on input '$'
Now bash looks like a modified prompt?? So what is happening?
Regards to all and TIA for reply.
Alan Cameron
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