I have seen in the documentation |Bool|=2
indicating that this type has two elements, which of course is true. However, when I go to the interpreter and type
|Bool|
I get a parse error on |
Is there a way to display the number of elements in a type?
to get information about a data type. There, you can also see that Bool belongs to the Bounded and Enum type classes. Hence, you can get all elements of the data type using
[minBound ..] :: [ Bool]
Then, you can get the cardinality using length ([minBound ..] :: [Bool]). There may be easier ways to get the cardinality of a bounded, enumerated data type.
In any case, and judging from your other questions, I advice you to read an introductiory book about Haskell. See here: Documentation.
I think it is important to mention that |Bool| is not real Haskell syntax. It is just some borrowed notation from mathematics where |X| stands for the size of a set (among other things).
It’s unfortunate that the documentation you read didn’t explain fully that this is the Cardinality notation. Could you point us to the part that talks about it?