[Haskell-beginners] Re: Haskell.Exts parse failed: FlexibleContexts not enabled

[Christian Maeder]

Am 28.09.2010 23:01, schrieb Daniel Lincke:
> Hi,
> 
> when parsing a file containing a function signature with a context like
> test :: (Functor f) => ...

This is just a plain (haskell 98) context. Can you hlint your file? Does
to go through ghc?

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlint uses
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-src-exts

> 
> I get the follewing failure:
> ParseFailed "Malformed context: FlexibleContexts not enabled"

http://darcs.haskell.org/download/docs/6.12.3/html/users_guide/other-type-extensions.html#flexible-contexts

Cheers Christian

> 
> Actually I enables flexible contexts whereever I could ... any ideas?
> 
> Greets, daniel