[Haskell-cafe] Could not deduce ... using functional dependencies with GHC7

[Daniel Fischer]

On Friday 18 March 2011 14:40:40, JP Moresmau wrote:
> Thanks to you all, I think I understand better.
> instance Search Id Id where
>   search _ _ i = only (FoundId i)
> 
> Is too restrictive on the first type, so declaring instead:
> instance Search id Id where
>   search _ _ i = only (FoundId i)

Not sure what GHC does with that, but at least in spirit that violates the 
FunDep of

class Search id a | a -> id where ...

Even if it works now, it may well not work in the future.
I'd go for a more stable solution respecting the intent of FunDeps
(i.e. there should only be one type t with an instance Search t Id).

> 
> Fixed the issue!! Now the initial "id" is not Id and everybody is
> happy (and the code still seems to work as intended)
> 
> thanks again
> 
> JP