George,

Thanks for the response. If i take out the AllowUndecidableInstances i get
no complaints and the compiler hangs. See
this<http://paste.pocoo.org/show/95523/>.
Thus, i can find no observable difference for this flag in this particular
code sample.

Best wishes,

--greg

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:34 PM, George Pollard <por...@porg.es> wrote:

> This is precisely what AllowUndecidableInstances allows; the type
> checking becomes possibly non-terminating. It should *eventually*
> terminate because the stack depth is restricted.
>
> - George
>



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