I found the error, silly mistake, sorry :-) ________________________________ From: bahadýr altan <doaltan@yahoo.co.uk> To: "beginners@haskell.org" <beginners@haskell.org> Sent: Monday, 2 April 2012, 19:44 Subject: Syntax error in input Hi,  I wrote that function:  wordCount x = length(words x) but I get this : ERROR "a.hs":73 - Syntax error in input (unexpected symbol "wordCount") Can you tell me how can I get rid of this error please? Thanks..