On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Angus Comber wrote:

I am reading Learn you a Haskell for great good and on page 40 - as-patterns.

This question is certainly better for the beginners list:
   http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

In your case

   x :: Char
   xs :: [Char]

   [x] :: Char

That is, the brackets create a list from the single character x. This way it provides the list type as required by (++).

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