[Haskell-cafe] Type infer

[David House]

On 26/01/07, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <malebria at riseup.net> wrote:
> But if I can't write this type signature without -fglasgow-exts, I
> thought that it couldn't infer this type. For me it's strange that it's
> ok to have a very generic function if I don't have a type signature, but
> if I write it the function will not be so generic. Shouldn't it infer
> only types that could be written?

It doesn't really infer the types of put/get at runtime; it pulls them
from the interface file for Control.Monad.State, which _was_ built
with -fglasgow-exts. Hence SPJ mentioning that it was more of a UI bug
than a typing bug.

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-David House, dmhouse at gmail.com