Parse error on input ‘->’

Question

I was doing an exercize from the Haskellwiki (99 questions) and I am getting "exercize.hs:1:12: parse error on input ‘->’ ":

myLast [a] -> a
myLast [] = error "Empty list has no last element"
myLast [x] = x
myLast (_:xs) = myLast xs

I am using Notepad++ on a Win8.1, the compiler is GHCi. I rewrote it many times and I can't see a mistake. Why is this happening?

chi · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-28 17:59:40Z

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You forgot the ::

myLast :: [a] -> a

answered Nov 28, 2014 at 17:59

chi

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