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Effective Haskell: Example doesn’t work (page 8)

Title: Effective Haskell - Example doesn’t work (page 8)

Middle of page 8 says: "Create a new Main.hs and copy the example below to get started.

module Main where

makeGreeting salutation person =
salutation <> " " <> person

Now load up ghci and test out…"

If I load this file into ghci (or try to compile it), I get errors: "The IO action ‘main’ is not defined in the module ‘Main’.

The text shown is not complete as it doesn’t include a main module. The reader is left to figure out why it doesn’t work.

First Post!

RebeccaSkinner

RebeccaSkinner

Author of Effective Haskell

Thanks for pointing out that bug! It will be fixed as soon as the next beta update is released.
Until then, the correct example should be:

module Main where

makeGreeting salutation person =
  salutation <> " " <> person

main = print "no salutation to show yet"

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