Re: [Haskell-cafe] Newbie : What does the sequence function make?

Benjamin Franksen wrote:

Another way to explain what sequence does is the following implementation, which I find a bit easier to understand for the beginner than the one given in http://www.haskell.org/onlinelibrary/standard-prelude.html :

sequence [] = [] sequence m:ms = do x <- m xs <- sequence ms return (x:xs)

Except that this definitions has a syntax error and a type error (or just a different type if you provide no signature). -- Lennart