Comments on: Wondrous Functional Languages http://christopherowen.id.au/blog/2007/02/27/wondrous-functional-languages/ Stuff cubed plus one Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:47:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amos Robinson http://christopherowen.id.au/blog/2007/02/27/wondrous-functional-languages/comment-page-1/#comment-7032 Amos Robinson Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:22:02 +0000 http://christopherowen.id.au/blog/?p=24#comment-7032 Ooh! A fellow haskell-dude! Nitpick: Specifying the type manually can have bad effects; wondrous :: Int -> [Int] but if you asked GHC what type it thought it should have, you'd get wondrous :: Integral a => a -> [a] which has the nice effect of letting you use BigInts too. :-) (Although maybe you just wanted to keep it simple and more easily understandable to non-Haskellers.. I don't know) Ooh! A fellow haskell-dude!

Nitpick:
Specifying the type manually can have bad effects;
wondrous :: Int -> [Int]
but if you asked GHC what type it thought it should have, you’d get
wondrous :: Integral a => a -> [a]
which has the nice effect of letting you use BigInts too. :-)

(Although maybe you just wanted to keep it simple and more easily understandable to non-Haskellers.. I don’t know)

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