[Haskell] [Haskell-cafe] Help with polymorphic functions

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 May 9, at 8:28, Abhay Parvate wrote:

> Of course in the final code many people would recommend that you put  
> in the type declarations as a good form of documentation, and it may  
> be also more specialized  according to your usage than what the  
> compiler/interpreter will deduce.


It's also useful to include them because it helps localize other type  
errors; if you leave type inference to the compiler, a type error will  
be reported when it is discovered, which may be far from where the  
actual error is.  You end up having to trace back through the  
definitions of functions used in the failing expression to find where  
the actual type error is.

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