No "full service" Haskell org mode?

Question

I'm guessing that since Haskell's ghci is not a full-fledged REPL, you can't really use it for defining functions in orgmode source blocks, i.e.,

#+begin_src haskell 
doubleMe x = x + x 
#+end_src

isn't allowed in the ghci. But then

#+begin_src haskell 
let doubleMe x = x + x 
#+end_src

works, but

#+begin_src haskell
let doubleSmallNumber4 x = if x > 0
                            then x 
                             else x*2 
#+end_src

complains about parsing the else. I'm assuming Haskell and orgmode simply don't play well together -- at least when it comes to using orgmode source blocks . . . or am I missing something?

Could it be an indentation problem? Beware of tabs in haskell, use spaces for indentation. — Harald Hanche-Olsen, Jun 22 '16 at 19:23
Putting the if statement all on one line works, but multi-line is a no-go in ghci. orgmode simply isn't doing Haskell in the way it does C or Scheme et al. — 147pm, Jun 22 '16 at 20:44
You might need to add `:set +m` to `~/.ghc/ghci.conf` in order to enable multiline input. Or have you done so already? — Harald Hanche-Olsen, Jun 23 '16 at 18:03

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 18 '16 at 18:24

You need to enable multi-line commands support in GHCi. Put :set +m to GHCi config file or execute it directly in org-babel session as shown in the following code:

#+begin_src haskell

:set +m

let doubleSmallNumber4 x = if x > 0
                            then x 
                             else x*2 

doubleSmallNumber4 42

#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: 42

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 12 '20 at 01:20

Another option for Haskell source blocks in org-mode is to use emacs-jupyter with the IHaskell kernel.

Multi-line code blocks work as expected, e.g.

#+begin_src jupyter-haskell
  let doubleSmallNumber4 x = if x > 0
                              then x 
                               else x*2 

  doubleSmallNumber4 2
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: 2

No "full service" Haskell org mode?

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