[Haskell-cafe] FAQ: Why no interactive definitions?

2005-12-22 Thread Greg Woodhouse
In neither GHCi nor Hugs (so far as I know) is it possible to interactively enter definitions. coming from Scheme, this was a bit of a surprise, as I'm used to being able to enter, say (define mysquare (lambda (x) (* x x))) Is this just a matter of the feature not being implemented, or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] FAQ: Why no interactive definitions?

2005-12-22 Thread J. Garrett Morris
In ghci at least, you can enter definitions like that using let binding: let mysquare x = x * x /g On 12/22/05, Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In neither GHCi nor Hugs (so far as I know) is it possible to interactively enter definitions. coming from Scheme, this was a bit of a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] FAQ: Why no interactive definitions?

2005-12-22 Thread Jared Updike
There was a good discussion about this on an earlier thread. http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg11372.html In fact, this exact question sparked a number of long threads. :-) (First steps in Haskell, Tutorial upload, Proposal for a First Tutorial.) Cheers, Jared. -- [EMAIL