[Haskell-beginners] type signature error in a where clause
Brandon Allbery
allbery.b at gmail.com
Sat Nov 24 16:37:12 CET 2012
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Mark Wallace <lotabout at gmail.com> wrote:
> Somehow it might seem a bit easier to me to grasp the function of a
> function with the help of type signature.
> I'll try just omitting the signatures, it's easier and more handy isn't it?
Sometimes, sometimes not. Type signatures can help localize type errors,
as otherwise ghc can infer an unexpected type and then report it to you at
a different place, making it difficult to untangle where it got the weird
type from.
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