I have exactly the same complaint. Also, the use of "let" seems completely superfluous here. No motivation for writing let villain = (28,"chirs") in fst vill

I have exactly the same complaint. Also, the use of "let" seems completely superfluous here. No motivation for writing let villain = (28,"chirs") in fst villain rather than the much shorter fst (28,"chirs") is given. I think the lack of any sort of typographical indication of when one expression ends is really a Haskell issue, not an issue with the tutorial, though perhaps newlines could be inserted for readability. (Or does Haskell care where newlines appear?) I've read a number of Haskell tutorials in the past, and despite having no problem with a variety of syntax types, including C-family, Lisp-family, and even having done some coding in ML way back when, I find the Haskell syntax really hard to read. I don't think this is something a tutorial can "fix", per se, but it'd be nice if there was a tutorial that took this into account and explained how to actually decompose Haskell code without just throwing code snippets at you and hoping that you'll intuit their meaning. "Haskell Parsing for Humans" is what I want. The part at the beginning of this tutorial where it explains numbers, strings, lists and tuples is actually a good start, but "let", "=", and "in" are never explained, nor is "fst".