ghci 'Not in scope:' message
I'm going through the 'Learn you a Haskell' tutorial and I am at this part:
lucky :: (Integral a) => a -> String
When I try to execute this line I get:
<interactive>:1:1: Not in scope: `lucky'
What am I doing wrong?
This is not a function code, it's function signature which can only be saved in a module along with function definition and the be loaded to GHCi.
This signature means that you're going to define a function lucky
which gets an Integer
and returns a String
.
However if you're composing your functions using GHCi as interactive interpreter, you can let Haskell infer your function's type, e. g.:
ghci> let lucky x = show (x + 1)
ghci> :t lucky
lucky :: (Num a) => a -> String
If you want to try in the GHCI you could use multi-line command block
:{
lucky :: Int -> String
lucky a = show(a)
:}
:type lucky
lucky :: Int -> String