I think your best bet is -fno-implicit-prelude, and defining fromInteger = id :: Integer->Integer.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Lauri Oksanen <lasso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there some way to tell ghc, how to interpret numeric literals? I > would like it to interpret > 1 as 1 :: Integer > not > 1 as fromInteger (1 :: Integer) > > I have been playing with the following (rather ugly) code. > > {-# OPTIONS > -XFunctionalDependencies > -XMultiParamTypeClasses > -XTypeSynonymInstances > #-} > module Test where > import Prelude(Integer, Double) > import qualified Prelude as P > default(Integer, Double) > > type Z = Integer > type R = Double > > class Plus a b c | a b -> c where > (+) :: a -> b -> c > > instance Plus Z Z Z where > j + k = j P.+ k > instance Plus R R R where > x + y = x P.+ y > > instance Plus R Z R where > x + j = x P.+ P.fromInteger j > instance Plus Z R R where > j + x = P.fromInteger j P.+ x > > x = (1 :: Z) + (1.0 :: R) > --y = 1 + 1.0 > > The commented line can't be compiled (because of ambiguous types, I think). > > - Lauri > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe