[Haskell-cafe] A voyage of undiscovery

Miguel Mitrofanov miguelimo38 at yandex.ru
Thu Jul 16 14:40:27 EDT 2009


> Consider the following expression:
>
> (foo True, foo 'x')
>
> Is this expression well-typed?
>
> Astonishingly, the answer depends on where "foo" is defined. If  
> "foo" is a local variable, then the above expression is guaranteed  
> to be ill-typed. However, if we have (for example)

That's not true:

main = let foo x = x in print (foo True, foo 'x')

works like a charm.


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