As I investigated the code more carefully, I found that the type unification failure may not be related to the suspected class constraint on data constructor.
I have made minor changes to the original code to remove the Ord constraint, including introducing a FakedMap with no requirement on Ord. The type unification failure continues: > Couldn't match type `nt1' with `nt' > `nt1' is a rigid type variable bound by > the type signature for > subsome :: [RRule nt1 t1 s1] -> Either String ([t1], s1) > at xx.hs:34:19 > `nt' is a rigid type variable bound by > the type signature for > legSome :: LegGram nt t s -> nt -> Either String ([t], s) > at xx.hs:29:1 > Expected type: [Symbols nt1 t1] > Actual type: [Symbols nt t] > In the first argument of `makeWord', namely `r' > In the expression: makeWord r The complete changed code follows: data Symbols nt t = NT nt -- ^ non terminal | T t -- ^ terminal deriving (Eq, Ord) type Sem s = [s]->s data Rule nt t s = Rule { refined :: nt , expression :: [Symbols nt t] , emit :: Sem s } type RRule nt t s = ([Symbols nt t], Sem s) data FakedMap a b = FakedMap delete :: k -> FakedMap k a -> FakedMap k a delete a b = b lookup :: k -> FakedMap k a -> Maybe a lookup a b = Nothing data LegGram nt t s = LegGram (FakedMap nt [RRule nt t s]) legSome :: LegGram nt t s -> nt -> Either String ([t], s) legSome (LegGram g) ntV = case Main.lookup ntV g of Nothing -> Left "No word accepted!" Just l -> let sg = legSome (LegGram (Main.delete ntV g)) subsome :: [RRule nt t s] -> Either String ([t], s) subsome [] = Left "No word accepted!" subsome ((r,sem):l) = let makeWord [] = Right ([],[]) makeWord ((NT nnt):ll) = do (m, ss) <- sg nnt (mm, sss) <- makeWord ll return (m++mm, ss:sss) makeWord ((T tt):ll) = do (mm, sss) <- makeWord ll return (tt:mm, sss) in case makeWord r of Right (ll, mm) -> Right (ll, sem mm) Left err -> subsome l in subsome l _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe