> Don't be discouraged; I think it would be useful. IMO, Haskellers tend to be > pretty insensitive when it comes to usability. > > For example, before the GHC devs were asked for that feature, I wonder > whether anyone ever thought: "Hey, when ghc -Wall complains about having no > type signature - why doesn't it print out the inferred type signature? That > would be helpful and convenient." > > I don't think it's because there's any sort of gung-ho elitism there, it's > just not something anyone but the educators like the Helium folk really think > about much.
I've been thinking about stuff like this as well. It happens to me as well that I spend minutes on finding an error till I notice that I've misspelled a word.. but this has been while programming PHP. In haskell this kind of error tends to take much less time IMHO. There is a "friendlier" shell (don't remember it's name) which takes another approach: Change color if the word is known.. In case of ghci the commandline could switch color to green before pressing enter to indicate there are no errors left.. Marc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
