[Haskell-cafe] A Question about the IO type detection

[Zongzhe Yuan]

Hi 
i meet a problem when i was using readLn to read a int from user

my function is like that

do (some thing else that is working)
     n <- readLn
     (some thing else)
     f n x1 x2 x3 ……

f has the type of Int -> something else
because the type in this function is fixed, if the type of n is not Int, it will have exception
However i want to detect whether the user input is valid or not and i have this function

import Data.Typeable

isInteger :: Typeable a => a -> Bool
isInteger n = (typeOf n) == (typeOf (1::Int))

and add to 
do (some thing else that is working)
     n <- readLn
     if isInteger n then 
         (some thing else)
         f n x1 x2 x3 ……
     else
         (something else)
but it doesn’t work because of the reason “type has been inferred and fixed”

How could i solve this problem?

Zongzhe Yuan



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