[Haskell-beginners] Multiline code in GHCi

David McBride toad3k at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 15:20:01 UTC 2017


The type of both True and False is Bool.  Just like the type of 1 and
2 and 3 is Integer.

Bool and Integer are types.  True, False, and 42 are all values.

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Shishir Srivastava
<shishir.srivastava at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just revisiting haskell after a hiatus and to begin that with a rather
> uncalled for query -
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> In the system type declaration for the data type Bool as below what are the
> types of the two values 'True' and 'False'
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> data Bool = False | True
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> Are the values 'String' ? In which case how's the Bool data type different
> from String enumerator data type ?
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> Thanks,
> S
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