Basic syntax of Haskell #

This chapter provides a (very incomplete) introduction to the elementary syntax of Haskell:

• tokens
• base types
• native functions
• tuple
• function definition
• program
• list

Additional features are introduced in other chapters, alongside their counterparts in Java:

• anonymous function
• currying
• pattern matching
• guards
• conditional statement
• list comprehension
• type variable
• generic type
• recursion
• composite type
• functor and monad