Haskell Language Infix operators Finding information about infix operators
Example
Because infixes are so common in Haskell, you will regularly need to look up their signature etc.. Fortunately, this is just as easy as for any other function:
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The Haskell search engines Hayoo and Hoogle can be used for infix operators, like for anything else that's defined in some library.
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In GHCi or IHaskell, you can use the
:iand:t(info and type) directives to learn the basic properties of an operator. For example,Prelude> :i + class Num a where (+) :: a -> a -> a ... -- Defined in ‘GHC.Num’ infixl 6 + Prelude> :i ^^ (^^) :: (Fractional a, Integral b) => a -> b -> a -- Defined in ‘GHC.Real’ infixr 8 ^^This tells me that
^^binds more tightly than+, both take numerical types as their elements, but^^requires the exponent to be integral and the base to be fractional.
The less verbose:trequires the operator in parentheses, likePrelude> :t (==) (==) :: Eq a => a -> a -> Bool
