Hi
I want to call a function from within Haskell module so that the name of this function corresponds to my first command-line argument and the rest rest of the command-line arguments are would become themselves the argument to this function.
While you can do this, you probably don't actually want to. You probably have one of two scenarios in mind: 1) You want to test the program. Use ghci or hugs for this, which lets you type in expressions and then evaluates them. 2) You only intend their to be a subset of functions which can be invoked. With higher order functions this is easy: functions = [("foo",foo), ("bar",bar)] main = do (name:cmds) <- getArgs case lookup name functions of Nothing -> putStrLn "Function not found" Just f -> f cmds Thanks Neil Note to the mailing list: When someone says it is their first week of Haskell, answers should probably include phrases like "pattern match" or "higher order" - not Template Haskell, hs-plugins, HList, GADT's etc!