On 29 October 2013 22:36, martin <martin.drautzburg@web.de> wrote:
is there a way to determine types of symbols which are not toplevel but inside a function?

Not at present without transformation. There are two reasonably reliable approaches:

Insert noisy holes/make intentional type errors: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Holes#Insertingdeliberatetypeerrors

Implicit parameters: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Holes#Implicitparameters

Holes will land in GHC to support this explicitly. I don't know what version of GHC has/will have this.

Alternatively, you can use ghc-mod (https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/ghc-mod) which, if you can get it to work, can tell you the types of sub-expressions.

Lastly, the next version of the FP Complete IDE gives you types of sub-expressions just by clicking on them or selecting them out of the box.