Re: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Generics: how do I get the type name of a value?

Hi http://haskell.org/hoogle/?q=typeOf C:\ghci GHCi, version 6.8.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude :m Data.Typeable Prelude Data.Typeable typeOf neil [Char] Another great thing is that this bit also works in Hugs, while the

[Haskell-cafe] Data.Generics: how do I get the type name of a value?

I've been learning/playing with Data.Generics a bit, and have a how-to question... If I say dataTypeOf then I get DataType {tycon = Prelude.[], datarep = AlgRep [[],(:)]} No surprises there. But I'd really like to know that I have a String, or [Char]. How do I get the name of the concrete

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Generics: how do I get the type name of a value?

On 14/12/2007, Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://haskell.org/hoogle/?q=typeOf Another great thing is that this bit also works in Hugs, while the Data.Generics stuff is GHC only. Great, thanks. Didn't occur to me to look further up the class hierarchy :-) Alistair

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Generics: how do I get the type name of a value?

Hi Alistair, http://haskell.org/hoogle/?q=typeOf C:\ghci GHCi, version 6.8.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude :m Data.Typeable Prelude Data.Typeable typeOf neil [Char] Thanks Neil On 12/14/07, Alistair Bayley [EMAIL PROTECTED]