Re: [Haskell] Newbie help with type-classes

2007-05-11 Thread Derek Elkins
Ryan Ingram wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is better for this type of question. Follow-up is set to it. Here's a test case for the problem I'm having; I'm using runhaskell from ghc v6.6. Problem #1) Without -fallow-undecidable-instances, I get the following error: Constraint is no smaller

Re: [Haskell] Newbie help with type-classes

2007-05-11 Thread Bas van Dijk
Maybe this is not what you want, but you can also put the 'convl' function in the 'ConvertToInt' class. class ConvertToInt a where conv :: a -> Int convl :: [a] -> [Int] With this approach you don't need any language extension. regards, Bas van Dijk On 5/11/07, Ryan Ingram <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Haskell] Newbie help with type-classes

2007-05-11 Thread Bas van Dijk
Add: -fallow-overlapping-instances to your OPTIONS pragma and read about overlapping instances in the GHC User Guide: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/type-extensions.html#instance-overlap regards, Bas van Dijk On 5/11/07, Ryan Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a

[Haskell] Newbie help with type-classes

2007-05-10 Thread Ryan Ingram
Here's a test case for the problem I'm having; I'm using runhaskell from ghc v6.6. Problem #1) Without -fallow-undecidable-instances, I get the following error: Constraint is no smaller than the instance head in the constraint: ConvertToInt a (Use -fallow-undecidable-instances to permi