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		coolsunglasses on Jan 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Functional Programming 101 with Haskell You're using the REPL, where every operation is basically happening in a do monad. If you get an error like that where you intend to define something, use let. like: let sumOfElements [] = 0

gizmo686 on Jan 24, 2014 [–]

I believe you mean that every operation is happening in the IO monad, and you input is being interpreted as if it was in a do block.

coolsunglasses on Jan 24, 2014 | [–]

Sorry, yes, misspoke (so to speak) because I had friends waiting for me to queue a Dota 2 game :)

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