[Haskell-beginners] A few really short beginners questions

Klaus Gy klausgy at gmail.com
Sun Oct 3 15:44:28 EDT 2010


Yea, Hugs tells me:

ERROR (filepath):3 - Syntax error in instance head (constructor expected)

But since I'm trying to understand Haskell and have nothing particular
in mind with this program, I'm not stressed finding a solution for
this. I'm happy if the code is principally correct.

fweth


2010/10/3, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu>:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 08:32:31PM +0200, Klaus Gy wrote:
>> Thank You very much for the fast reply! I think I expressed myself
>> badly in the first question. What does not work is the following:
>>
>>   class Test a
>>
>>   instance Num a => Test a
>
> What do you mean "doesn't work"? Do you get an error?  Or it doesn't
> have the behavior you expect?  This ought to work fine.
>
> -Brent
>


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