Re: Newbie problem: lexical error when compiling

David Schonberger writes:

'ghc -o hello hello.hs' and received the following error: hello.hs:1:0 lexical error at character '\65279'.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark Somehow you'll have to persuade you editor not to use the BOM, or make GHC accept it... Neither of which I can help you. -- Regards, Feri.