PR Stanley
No, Mr. smarty pants, I can't. I'll leave you to work out why I rely on a scanner and an OCR engine for reading printed materials. *smile*
Ah. Well, given your original question ("why does this code not work?") it was probably a reasonable assumption that you had written it yourself, and the problem you wanted help with was understanding the semantics of what you had written. Whereas if you had phrased your question initially more like "I am having difficulty reading/using this OCR'd version of someone else's code", the responses could perhaps have been more helpful more quickly. Anyway, the corrected code snippet follows: qSort (x:xs) = qSort smaller ++ [x] ++ qSort larger where smaller = [a | a <- xs, a <= x ] larger = [b | b <- xs, b > x ] If your reading software can be trained to convert sequences of symbols into phrases, then "++" might be pronounced as "append", and "<-" as "drawn from". Regards, Malcolm