Singleton list confusion

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Why do Haskell newcomers frequently believe, that list variables must be enclosed in brackets?

People sometimes write argument patterns like , hoping that will assume all values of a list successively.

Maybe it is some kind of list comprehension.

See for example Haskell-Cafe about testing for same characters in lists of strings, Pattern match failure

Category: Syntax