[Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

Twan van Laarhoven twanvl at gmail.com
Fri Apr 2 02:22:55 EDT 2010


Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> I've been thinking of doing something similar for a year or so now, but
> there's one big problem that I can think of: how to deal with functions
> that don't have an explicit type signature in the source.  My
> understanding is that to derive these signatures at "checking time"
> would require using something like the GHC API, which immediately
> reduces the "niceness" and portability of such a tool/library.
> 

As a simple approximation, you could consider functions without type signatures 
to have changed if their implementation or any function they depend on has changed.



Twan


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