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
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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, w
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]>
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 concret
