On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:01:07AM -0800, Scherrer, Chad wrote: > So I think of the types as being > grep "." *.hs :: String > wc :: String -> Int -- ok, not really, but it shows the point better.
Every unix program has a standard input, even if it doesn't use it, so I would rather give this type to grep "." *.hs: grep "." *.hs :: a -> String You can run something like this p | echo bla | grep "." *.hs | wc even if it seems non-sensical. Best regards Tomasz _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe