[Haskell-beginners] why is the :type different in ghci?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 03:36, Ovidiu Deac <ovidiudeac at gmail.com> wrote:

> I kind of understand what you mean but I don't understand why would
> anybody want this functionality.
>

Nobody else does these days either, which is why I added


> > Common wisdom these days is to disable the monomorphism restriction when
> > working with ghci; there's a growing belief that it has outlived its
> > usefulness.
>

IIUC it used to make typechecking take too long.

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