Hi,
In a somewhat vain attempt to make this relevant to Textmate, let me thank everyone for the pointer to the Haskell bundle: like a few people I was contemplating getting my hands dirty and constructing something similar, but hadn't yet got around to doing so.
If you are trying to use ghci or similar, You probably ran into the same problem I did when I started trying the tutorials. Apparently you can not define functions in the interactive Haskell environment. The tutorials are not clear on that, and I really don't understand why you can't do that.
You certainly can, but that's not the way in which ghci is really intended to work.
% ghci
[...banner deleted: OK, let's define a function to join an array of strings with another string, or "" if fed an empty array.]
Prelude> let join a []=""; join a x =foldr1 (\x y ->x++a++y) x
Prelude> join " me " ["Show","money","hearties"] "Show me money me hearties""
Even given this possibility, it probably more sense to write your functions/modules in a separate file and to reload that inside ghci. Just use
:l filename.hs
to load and a simple ":r" to reload after modifications. If you want to use Textmate to do the editing (surprise surprise) there's a shell escape available in ghci, so something like
:!mate filename.hs
allows a nice try/edit/try interface. That is, ghci is probably best viewed as *interactive* in the sense that you're "driving" your program, rather than *writing* your program. It's also a great environment for testing out one-liners for inclusion in larger programs.
Cheers, Paul