[Haskell-cafe] How to understand the 'forall' ?

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 04:18:34 EDT 2009


Hello Cristiano,

Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 12:04:48 PM, you wrote:

> Yep, perhaps I used the wrong example. What about foo: (forall a. a) -> Int?

it's a function that convert anything to integer. for example:

foo _ = 1

it's hard to find better examples, since haskell has very few
functions with fully polymorphic arguments


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