[Haskell-cafe] First steps in Haskell

[Bjorn Lisper]

Simon:
>Me:
>| Actually, I have sometimes wished that the various interactive Haskell
>| interfaces had the possibility to enter also declarations interactively

>GHCi does.

Ah, I see! Does it open a let-environment with a local definition?

>ghci>  let f x = "hello"
>ghci> f True
>True

Hmm, an interesting semantics for f given the declaration :-)

>But there's no editor -- it's strictly a one-line definition

Which is useful enough in many situations. I'll try it out...

Björn