[Haskell-beginners] an observation about Haskell vs. Python

[Ertugrul Söylemez]

Daniel Trstenjak <daniel.trstenjak at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think that it's possible to have intuitive understandable
> error messages for something as complex as a programming language like
> Haskell.

It isn't related to complexity, but just to certain type system
features, in particular type classes and rank-n types.  Confusing error
message in the context of the former are the most common ones as
explained in my answer.

The latter can be even more confusing, when the compiler starts
complaining about types that aren't polymorphic enough or even about
"escaping type variables".  But I'd say most people observe those
messages only when they try to use ST in an unsafe way.


Greets,
Ertugrul

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