Installation issues

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/7/12 Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu>:
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> On 7/12/10 13:07 , David Waller wrote:
>> I have recently installed Haskell-mode (version 2.7) for xemacs (version
>> 21.4.22) onto a PC running Windows 7 (64bit)
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>> When I try and open a Haskell file (ending in .hs) with Xemacs, I get the
>> error message Invalid read syntax “#” and the file is not opened.
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> "#" in ELisp signifies opaque types; for example, if you type "M-:
> (current-buffer) RET" you will get something like "#<buffer *scratch*>".
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I think the equivalent in Haskell would be a datatype that doesn't
instantiate the Read typeclass. :)

For more detailed information:
M-: (info "(elisp) Printed Representation") RET

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Deniz Dogan