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rundis / elm-light

Elm language plugin for Light Table
https://rundis.gitbooks.io/elm-light-guide/content/
MIT License
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Feature request: types #14

Closed ccapndave closed 8 years ago

ccapndave commented 8 years ago

It would be incredibly useful if you could highlight something in the editor and run a command that pops up what type the Elm compiler has inferred for it. Is this even conceptually possible?

rundis commented 8 years ago

I believe it's possible, but it's far from trivial to do at the moment. It would be really nice if the elm-compiler (or through some elm-tooling api) this was exposed to external tools. I think implementing type inference in the elm-light plugin (or vs code for that matter) would be a lot of effort which would be better suited as something more general.

rundis commented 8 years ago

Needs xompiler feature. Tracked as feature request in elm-compiler. Will reopen when/if some sort of support for tooling on this makes it into the compiler..