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by masklinn 5814 days ago
> Usually when writing a program in F# I usually write out the types of the functions I need first, before worrying about how the functions work.

And that kind of things can give rise to such wonderful tools as hoogle (a type-based Haskell search engine, specify the type you need and it'll find the matching functions, whose types are often quite good insight as to their purpose)