On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 14:52, Henning Thielemann <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I have never used ':show bindings' before ... in other cases like
>   let x='a'
> and
>   let x=23::Int
>

Since you gave explicit types, x is bound to strict values directly; it's
only when no type is given that GHCi needs to translate the constant per the
Language Report to an invocation of fromInteger.

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