[Haskell-beginners] points-free problem

Michael Mossey mpm at alumni.caltech.edu
Fri Nov 20 18:10:48 EST 2009


I've been on this list for something like 7 months and I think 
"monomorphism restriction" is the answer to about 70% of 
newbie/intermediate questions. I don't always understand their questions 
but one can pretty much guess the answer.

Daniel Fischer wrote:
> Monomorphism restriction.
> By that, if you bind f via
> 
> f = (blah blah blah)
> 
> and don't give a type signature, f gets a monomorphic type. Dreadful details in the 
> report, section 4.5.(?)
> 



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