[Haskell-beginners] Getting a variables type as a string at runtime

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Gareth Morgan <gmorgan1984 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Won't show include all the components? I wanted to include only the type
> name.
>

Types only exist at compile time normally. But if you add a Typeable
constraint (see Data.Typeable and the DeriveDataTypeable extension) you can
get type names at runtime.

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