Could you suggest a better word pair to describe the dichotomy then? How about 'calculated' vs 'user-imposed' (or even, 'explicitly- signatured')?
Dan Piponi-2 wrote: > > I really dislike this error message, and I think the terms are > ambiguous. I think the words 'expected' and 'inferred' apply equally > well to the term, and the context in which it has been found. Both of > the incompatible types were 'inferred', and 'unexpected' is a property > of the combination, not a property of one or the other. > -- > Dan > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Martijn van > Steenbergen<mart...@van.steenbergen.nl> wrote: >> Hi Michael, >> >> michael rice wrote: >>> >>> as opposed to an "inferred type"? >> >> Can you deduce from the following example? >> >>> Prelude> let foo = () :: Int >>> <interactive>:1:10: >>> Couldn't match expected type `Int' against inferred type `()' >>> In the expression: () :: Int >>> In the definition of `foo': foo = () :: Int >>> >> >> Hope this helps! >> >> Martijn. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-is-an-%22expected-type%22-...-tp24242359p24244820.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe