[Haskell-cafe] Can I use String without "" in ghci?

[Albert Y. C. Lai]

On 13-09-01 02:02 AM, yi lu wrote:
> I have noticed if *bar* is predefined or it is a number, it can be used
> as arguments. But can other strings be used this way? Like in bash, we
> can use *ping 127.0.0.1* where *127.0.0.1* is an argument.

Does Bash have a rich type system, like Haskell?

Does Haskell use "$joy" to refer to a variable, and "joy" to not refer 
to a variable, like Bash?