purescript / purescript/pursuit
Types are case sensitive - confusing for beginners
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- Haskell
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Description
A beginner reported confusing results when searching number -> string (instead of Number -> String).
Not sure what the best way to improve this is.
Related to #320
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Research direction
Reproduce the reported search for number -> string and compare it with Number -> String. Read the related discussion in #320 before deciding how case sensitivity should work; done means the intended beginner-friendly search behavior is defined and covered by appropriate search checks.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- haskell
- Domain
- documentation, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100