Stream: beginners

Topic: ✔ Without an LSP, how do you check what type something is?

Tankor Smash (Dec 02 2023 at 18:09):

In Elm, you could do something like

someFunc x y  =
       let
            x2 : TypeItsNot
            x2 = x
       in
       x + y

and the compiler would say 'thats not TypeItsNot, it's an Int'.

It doesn't appear that the same trick works in roc so far, but maybe there's an equivalent way of getting the type.

Tankor Smash (Dec 02 2023 at 18:11):

Oh actually maybe it does work:

someFunc = \fileName ->
    foo : TypeItsNot
    foo = Util.readInputFile fileName
    foo

Brendan Hansknecht (Dec 02 2023 at 18:13):

yeah, that should work.

Tankor Smash (Dec 02 2023 at 18:15):

Thanks! It turns out the reason I thought it didn't work was because I was missing the last returned value there, and the compiler didn't know what I meant.

someFunc = \fileName ->
    foo : TypeItsNot
    foo = Util.readInputFile fileName

and I didn't read the error message closely.

Notification Bot (Dec 02 2023 at 18:15):

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