I did this. *TF> :kind F Int F Int :: * *TF> :kind! F Int F Int :: * = Bool In the end I just made an eager version of :kind as the command: in addition to displaying the kind of the type, it normalises it and shows the result. It's in HEAD. Documentation to come when I get home. I'm not wedded to this command name. If everyone wants ":normalise" it would only take a 1-line change. Simon From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Sean Leather Sent: 20 September 2011 11:34 To: GHC Users List Subject: Evaluating type expressions in GHCi I would like to ask GHCi for the type that a type expression will evaluate to, once all definitions of type synonyms and (when possible) type families have been inlined. It appears that I can do some part of this for type T by using ":t undefined :: T": type family F a type instance F Int = Bool type instance F Bool = Int type instance F (a, b) = (F a, F b) ghci> :t undefined :: F (Int, Bool) undefined :: F (Int, Bool) :: (Bool, Int) I also get what I expect here: ghci> :t undefined :: F (a, Bool) undefined :: F (a, Bool) :: (F a, Int) Of course, this doesn't work on types of kinds other than *. Is it possible and worth having another GHCi command to perform this operation for any types? It could be the type analogue to :t such that it evaluates the type and gives its kind. Regards, Sean