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Here's what you need to know: Start ghci (I'm using stack[0], if you don't have stack you can also just use `ghci` here).

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Here's what you need to know: Start ghci (I'm using stack[0], if you don't have stack you can also just use `ghci` here).

Example sentences

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Here's what you need to know: Start ghci (I'm using stack[0], if you don't have stack you can also just use `ghci` here).

2

Instead they are using GHC's runtime linker to load/unload modules dynamically, in the same fashion as ghci does.

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GHCi itself is made possible by Haskell's excellent balance between type system expressiveness and making inference feasible.

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Well, looks like installing stack does at least allow me to get a ghci up and running.

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In this regard Haskell GHCi (and many static languages), makes developing more complex than dynamic languages, but again it's not intrinsic.

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I created hs-scrape[0] to write web scrapers and I frequently use the ghci debugger[1] for step-by-step debugging.

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OK - now with a stack.yaml file it's busy getting me a ghci...

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The GHCi command to enable multiline mode is `:set +m`, not `:set +s`.

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I'm very satisifed I was able to fix all of these things so easily thanks to following the types and using ghci.

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As someone who just started using Scala coming from Haskell, scalac does seem much slower than ghc -O3 and tons slower than ghc -O0 or ghci.

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But I still have ghci installed at work, and I find it surprisingly useful to use Haskell to prototype (pure) functions for Scala!

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You've always been able to have type holes at the ghci prompt - wrap your expression in a lambda and see what's inferred as the first argument.

Quote examples

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In my opinion, the best example of this is GHCi: Using GHCi almost feels like asking the computer "Is what I'm doing right?".

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("ghci"))))) Now everything is working flawlessly and very fast.

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It doesn't quite have the same "fluid conversation" feel as using GHCi, but it saves the enormous amount of time that would've been otherwise spent chasing memory bugs in a debugger, especially in a concurrent program.

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It's true that Haskell's definition of "exploring" (refine your design until you can convice GHCi and QuickCheck that it makes sense) is somewhat idiosyncratic from a Lisper or Smalltalker's point of view (refine your design until you can convince yourself that it makes sense), but that doesn't make it any less legitimate.

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How do you use ghci in a sentence?

Here's what you need to know: Start ghci (I'm using stack[0], if you don't have stack you can also just use `ghci` here).