id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	os	architecture	failure	difficulty	testcase	blockedby	blocking	related
1388	Newbie help features	guest		"Often a newbie comes to #haskell and asks why something doesn't work in ghci. 
There are at least two cases: 

""why doesn't type Bar = (Char, Int) work""? 
  and
""why doesn't f = 1 work?"" (that is function definitions)

It wouldn't be much work to recognize these cases and then give the user some hints on putting those definitions into a file, etc. 

Another case where error messages can be improved is the following: 

type Foo = (char, int) -- the intention is clear, but the error message might not be clear to a new user. Suggestion: when the parsed type variables are the same modulo case to an existing core type(Int, Bool, Array, etc) and Foo doesn't take those type parameters, tell the user he needs to use proper casing."	feature request	new	low	_|_	GHCi	6.6.1				Unknown/Multiple	Unknown/Multiple		Easy (less than 1 hour)