Thanks a lot for the solution! And of course the ghci behaviour is much more sensible than the hugs one.
And for pointing me to the mail archive. It encourages me to submit my next problem: stack overflow with simple Show instances...more later I wonder if there is a list of Hugs to GHCI "gotchas"? Matt. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Fairtlough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verification and Testing Group Room 115 Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street Sheffield S1 4DP Tel: (0)114-22-21826 UK Fax: (0)114-22-21810 WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~matt/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users