[Haskell-beginners] Understandig types

[David Place]

All of your questions are answered very nicely in this tutorial:

> http://learnyouahaskell.com/types-and-typeclasses
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On Jul 2, 2011, at 11:37 AM, moowoo9 at fastmail.fm wrote:

> Hi everyone. I've got a few questions about the Haskell programming
> language.
> 
> 1) what's the difference between these two code statements? I'm
> convinced they should be the same
> 
> type T = [Char]
> type CurrentValue = Char  
> 
> My concern is that in the second one there are no brackets
> 
> Anyway they are actually declarations arent'they?
> 
> 2) What is Maybe String?
> 
> For instance: type P = (Char, Maybe String)
> 
> Is that a function which has two arguments ?
> 
> 3) What is Maybe Char ?
> 
> For instance : type D = ((Maybe Char) , Char)
> 
> It's another function having three arguments..am I right?
> 
> Thanks a lot. 777P
> 
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