[Haskell-cafe] Is there a way to find out the type inferred for a local function inside another function? :)

[wren ng thornton]

On 4/8/11 8:24 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> Magnus Therning schrieb:
>> AFAIK there is no way to do that, thouhg scion[1] may offer it.
>>
>> Personally I develop more complex local functions at the top-level,
>> and once I'm happy with it I perform some re-factoring and move it in.
>
> I would not write large local functions at all. I would leave them
> top-level but do not export them. This also allows to test them from GHCi.

The downside to this is when you want to use the worker/wrapper 
transform in order to capture some local variables for a recursive 
function, instead of passing them through the recursion.

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