Elm REPL doesn't display types as stated in chapter: Reading Types

bobvandenberge commented 6 years ago

My programming background is software engineer
I want to learn Elm because it looks like an awesome language to have in my toolbox
I am confused that in the chapter Reading Types it states that the Elm REPL shows you what type a certain variable is. When I ran these examples, I don't see any output, I saw:

After some investigation I noticed that this was caused by my terminal color scheme. If I select everything I get the expected view:

Not sure if this is a 'issue' or not but it might confuse people who start with elm. I also wasn't sure whether or not this issue should be part of this repository or the 'elm/compiler' so please feel free to move it if necessary.

g-io commented 5 years ago

Got the same issue. Thanks for pointing to the color scheme, that hadn't occurred to me. I'm running my terminal on some solarized dark color scheme. Turning to a light color profile helped.

seven-two-eight commented 5 years ago

@g-io If you prefer not to change your color scheme, elm repl --no-colors might help.

ogirginc commented 5 years ago

--no-colors is a bit problematic too (solarized dark with iTerm). Without highlighting:

With highlighting:

evancz / guide.elm-lang.org

Elm REPL doesn't display types as stated in chapter: Reading Types #166