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Information given by :info (Was: Some random newbie questions): msg#00131

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Subject: Information given by :info (Was: Some random newbie questions)


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, John Hughes wrote:

> What IS useful, right from the beginning, is the list of instances. What
> are Num types? Oh, integers and reals. What are Show types? Oh, pretty
> much everything. Particularly when debugging "missing instance" errors,
> this is just the information you need.

Good idea! What I also would like to see is the Haddock documentation
string of a function printed by ":info" or some other command.


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