Re: 2-days old in Haskell

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 16:00 +0200, TOPE KAREM wrote:

I opened a notepad and type this program:

main = putStrLn "Hello, Word!"

I saved this file as hello.hs in the same directory GHCi 6.6.1 was installed.

You can store it anywhere, as long as GHC is in your search path.

When I tried to compile it as instucted on the webpage ( $ ghc -o hello hello.hs), I got this error message.

<interactive>: 1:0: parse error on input '$'

please what am I doing wrong.

Several things :-) You don't usually compile from within GHCi, but rather from a system command prompt. And: the dollar sign is the typical Unix command prompt, you're not supposed to type it in. Generally, you're better off using the make option to ghc, type "ghc --make hello.hs" instead. -k