Specialized type hints

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at seidel.io> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016, at 23:54, Christopher Allen wrote:
> > I'd like to see how warm people would be to catching GHC's type error
> > quality up a bit.
> >
> > I did a write-up on a confusion a reader of our book had:
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/bitemyapp/c27c721b92dab0248433
>
>
>
> Wow, this is a pretty nasty error message. In particular because it
> relies on the overloaded nature of integer literals.


We actually had another such situation come up in #haskell yesterday, btw.
Someone confused type constructors and data constructors, and the error
message assumed they wanted DataKinds and type level programming. This is
kinda bad for newcomers.

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