Hi
Thanks. A light bulb just went on :). I am still in awe of how much "special syntax" is made of such simple base. Haskell certainly is an interesting thing to learn, its like fractals, complexity and beuty from simplicity.
S
----Original Message Follows---- Crypt Master,
CM> I have noticed that lists seem to swtich between CM> using [] and using (). for example: CM> CM> listSum [] = 0 CM> listSum (x:xs) = x + listsum xs
The parentheses are just 'normal' parentheses that are needed because application binds stronger than (:). Without the parentheses, you would get
listSum x : xs
which is the same as
(listSum x) : xs .
HTH,
Stefan
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