getting type information about local bindings

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Don't try to get the type environment out.  Instead, look at the
syntax tree produced by the type checker.  Each binder is an Id.
There's a function 
	idType :: Id -> Type
that tells you the type of each binder.  Quite how you present it
to the user in a good way isn't clear to me, 

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Bernard James POPE [mailto:bjpop@cs.mu.OZ.AU]
| Sent: 10 November 2000 05:56
| To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
| Cc: bjpop@cs.mu.OZ.AU
| Subject: getting type information about local bindings
| 
| 
| Hi all,
| 
| In GHC 4.09 the flag "-ddump-types" causes the type signatures of 
| top-level bound identifiers to be printed.
| 
| I would really like to make use of the type-checker in GHC, 
| however, I would
| also like to obtain the types of locally bound identifiers
| (things in let expressions and where clauses). Obviously 
| there is going to
| be some trickery regarding type variables from enclosing scopes.
| 
| I looked in the TcModule.lhs module and noticed that the TcResults 
| value returned by typecheckModule contains a value 
| environment that only
| specifies the types of top bound identifiers.
| 
| Further investigation of the code led me to the TcBinds.lhs module
| and the tcBindsAndThen function. I can see that local type 
| environments 
| are not passed upwards during type checking/inference.
| 
| At some point I got lost in the code. Does anyone know of a 
| reasonable means
| for obtaining this type information? I don't mind doing some 
| hacking, but
| I wanted to get advise from the experts as to whether I might 
| be wasting
| my time. 
| 
| Perhaps such a thing is done somewhere when generating Core code?
| 
| As an aside I dare say that such an extension would be useful 
| to other 
| people, particularly those writing source transformation code.
| 
| Regards,
| Bernie.
| 
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