Stefan Holdermans wrote: >> It seems that I need to distinguish between a theory for Haskell and a >> given implementation (GHCi). > What do you mean by this?
>From the responses to my query, it seems that I cannot rely totally on the compiler for my research question which is concerned with the meaning of Haskell constructs I will have to consult the Haskell Report. >> Why are the GHCi commands :t "ww" and :t getName("ww") not a valid type >> checks? > > I am not sure what you mean by this. l...@iks-jena.de wrote; > And you do not even check for the type of "ww". > :t snd . (\x -> (getName x, x)) $ "ww" > ... :: String >From the above, I though perhaps that my checks were not valid tests for the type of the expressions. Thanks, Pat _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe