Michael Vanier writes:

import Prelude hiding length

whereas the correct syntax is

import Prelude hiding (length)

I spent nearly an hour beating my head against this. Can someone fix this in the documentation?

Or, alternatively, fix the Haskell syntax? It would be more consistent with qualified type declarations [e.g. (Eq a, Ord a ) => a -> a vs. Eq a => a -> a ] or deriving clauses. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants