andrewcoppin: > Ross Boylan wrote: > >First, I'm really impressed with the fast and helpful responses from > >several people! > > > > Ask an easy question and you'll get at least a dozen people tripping > over each other in their rush to offer you useful advice. Ask a hard > question, or an uninteresting question, and enjoy the utter silence... > :-( Still, I suppose that's not *too* surprising. > > >I had thought HUGS made more sense for fiddling around, but it seems all > >I'm doing is loading files anyway. What is the style people use for > >this exploratory work? I've already installed haskell-mode for emacs > >and ghc6, but it's not clear to me to what extent the former servers as > >a development environment rather than just a language formatter. > > > > I used to use Hugs as well. Then I updated to the newest version, and > found it horrifically buggy. That's when I moved over to GHC. As Don > said, GHCi doesn't let you define new functions like Hugs does, but
Other way around, GHCi lets you define new functions, unlike Hugs :) $ ghci Prelude> let f x = x ^ 2 Prelude> f 2 4 And: $ hugs Type :? for help Hugs.Base> let f x = x ^ 2 ERROR - Syntax error in expression (unexpected end of input) Hugs.Base> [Leaving Hugs] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe