[Haskell-cafe] Function returning the type of its argument.

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* Grigory Sarnitskiy <sargrigory at ya.ru> [2011-07-29 21:54:05+0400]
> It is not possible in Haskell, moreover it seems to be too alien to Haskell. Nevertheless, is there an extension which would allow to write a function that returns the type of its argument?

Sounds like you want typeOf.

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/latest/doc/html/Data-Typeable.html#v:typeOf

But be sure you *really* need this (or ask us if in doubt).

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