Re: [Haskell-cafe] FAQ: Why no interactive definitions?

In ghci at least, you can enter definitions like that using let binding: let mysquare x = x * x /g On 12/22/05, Greg Woodhouse wrote:

In neither GHCi nor Hugs (so far as I know) is it possible to interactively enter definitions. coming from Scheme, this was a bit of a surprise, as I'm used to being able to enter, say

(define mysquare (lambda (x) (* x x)))

Is this just a matter of the feature not being implemented, or is there a deeper reason for this?

=== Gregory Woodhouse "Interaction is the mind-body problem of computing." --Philip L. Wadler _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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