Type checker's expected and inferred types (reformatted)
Albert Y. C. Lai
trebla at vex.net
Sat Oct 24 15:21:51 EDT 2009
For the record, and to speak up as part of a possible silent majority,
I completely understand the type error messages. I find enough
information in them. I like them.
I find it unnecessary to "decrypt" the two words "expected" and
"inferred". They have their own definitions and they stand for
themselves; "external" and "internal" are helpful mnemonics, useful
approximation, but not decryption.
I support work on ghc to prioritize professional use over pedagogical
use, that is, if a proposed pedagogical improvement conflicts with
professional use concerns, or even if simply no one has time to
implement, I support sacrificing the pedagogical improvement. To
mitigate the sacrifice, we users write tutorials for each other.
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