<div dir="ltr"><font color="#003333"><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Hi,</font></font></font><div><font color="#003333"><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#003333"><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I'm having a problem with the read function. I thought it took a string and converted it into a value (if there is a conversion). But it doesn't seem to work for me on GHCi</font></font></font></div>
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Prelude> read "123"</div></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#003333"><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div>*** Exception: Prelude.read: no parse</div></font></font></font></div><div>
<font color="#003333"><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div><div>Prelude> read (show 123)</div></div></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#003333"><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div>
<div>*** Exception: Prelude.read: no parse</div></div></font></font></font></div></blockquote><div><font color="#003333"><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div>There must be something trivial that I'm missing. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div></font></font></font><div dir="ltr"><font><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><i><font color="#003333">-- Russ Abbott</font></i></font></font></div>
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