[Haskell-beginners] Point free mystery

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:31 PM, martin <martin.drautzburg at web.de> wrote:

> Hlint suggested
>
> Found:
>   bench x = (timeIt . print) x
> Why not:
>   bench = (timeIt . print)
>

hlint is kinda dumb sometimes, like any heuristic analyzer. In particular,
it recognizes patterns of code, but knows nothing about types. Or, in this
case, the monomorphism restriction, which is likely messing with the
inferred type (since the inferred type is correct when it has a parameter).

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