I really dislike this error message, and I think the terms are ambiguous. I think the words 'expected' and 'inferred' apply equally well to the term, and the context in which it has been found. Both of the incompatible types were 'inferred', and 'unexpected' is a property of the combination, not a property of one or the other. -- Dan On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Martijn van Steenbergen<martijn@van.steenbergen.nl> wrote:
Hi Michael,
michael rice wrote:
as opposed to an "inferred type"?
Can you deduce from the following example?
Prelude> let foo = () :: Int <interactive>:1:10: Couldn't match expected type `Int' against inferred type `()' In the expression: () :: Int In the definition of `foo': foo = () :: Int
Hope this helps!
Martijn.
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