haskell-lectures/VL2/content/VL2_polymorphism2.tex

And now we are going to write functions to use it:
\begin{haskellcode}
isListEmpty :: List t -> Bool
isListEmpty Emtpy = True
isListEmpty x     = False
\end{haskellcode}
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We can even have more generic stuff like:
\begin{haskellcode}
f :: a -> b
\end{haskellcode}
Whatever the function does... it gets something of one type and returns something of another type (it could be the same type, but doesn't need to). That's all we know.
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Similarly, remember the function \hinline{head} which gives us the first element of a list? The type signature actually looks like this:
\begin{haskellcode}
head :: [a] -> a
\end{haskellcode}
Makes sense?