Re: [Haskell] Haskell [x] and x notation - as-pattern example

On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Angus Comber wrote:

I am reading Learn you a Haskell for great good and on page 40 - as-patterns.

This question is certainly better for the beginners list: http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners In your case x :: Char xs :: [Char] [x] :: Char That is, the brackets create a list from the single character x. This way it provides the list type as required by (++).