Yeah, I realized that later. It's still more obscure than the version with the list comprehension. In particular, the place where x is introduced is at the very

Yeah, I realized that later. It's still more obscure than the version with the list comprehension. In particular, the place where x is introduced is at the very beginning, but the values it can be bound to are at the end of the expression, and that is much less clear than "x <- [0..5]". The rule for asterisks is that they must be followed by whitespace to show up as asterisks, so you just need to format your code nicely :-) x * y works.