[Haskell-cafe] haskell - main function

[Tillmann Rendel]

applebiz89 wrote:
> becomeFan :: Title -> fanName -> [Film] -> [Film]
> becomeFan _ _ [] = []
> becomeFan Title fanName ((Film Title Director Year fan):xs) 
> 	| filmName == title = (Film Title Director Year fanName:fan) : xs
> 	| otherwise = (Film Title Director Year fan) : becomeFan Title fanName xs

In the type signature, you have to use types. In other words, use "Fan" 
instead of "fanName" in the first line.

Variables have to begin with a lowercase letter. In other words, use 
"title", "director", "year" instead of "Title", "Director", "Year".

Regarding the IO: I still propose to get your pure functions to work 
first, then worry about IO. You can test your code by loading it into ghci.

   > ghci nameofmyfile.hs

If everything works (i.e. no compile errors), you can call your 
functions at the prompt:

   > becomeFan "Casine Royale" "apple", testDatabase

Now ghci should answer with something like the following:

   [(Film "Casino Royale" "Martin Campbell" 2006
          ["apple", "Garry", "Dave", "Zoe"])]

This way, you can test your stuff while working on it.

   Tillmann