Prelude Data.Set> :load hello
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( hello.hs, interpreted )
hello.hs:11:11: parse error on input `<-'
Failed, modules loaded: none.
Prelude Data.Set> h <- IO.openFile "testtext" IO.ReadMode
Prelude Data.Set>
The same line [h <- IO.openFile "testtext" IO.ReadMode] inside hello.hs throws the error. How do i fix this? What am I doing wrong?
[EDIT] Source and output: http://pastebin.com/KvEvggQK
tmr. hs:1:14: parse error on input '->' Failed, modules loaded: none. Parse errors indicate that the program violates Haskell syntax.
A parse error is an error message you sometimes get on Android devices when an app fails to install. The message itself is not very specific, and there are a lot of problems that can cause it.
You can only use <-
inside a do
-block¹ (which you're implicitly in in GHCI, but not in Haskell files).
In a Haskell file, you're only allowed to write bindings using =
.
What you could do is put the following in the Haskell file:
myHandle = do h <- IO.openFile "testtext" IO.ReadMode
return h
Though if you think about that for a bit, this is just the same as:
myHandle = IO.openFile "testtext" IO.ReadMode
However this way myHandle
is still wrapped in IO
and you'll need <-
(or >>=
) in ghci to unwrap it.
You can't write a Haskell file in such a way that just loading the file, will open testtext
and give you the file handle.
¹ Or a list comprehension, but there the right operand of <-
needs to be a list, so that has nothing to do with your situation.
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