[Haskell-beginners] Idiomatic way to avoid type class instance definitions for Int and Integer separately

[Ozgur Akgun]

On 15 March 2011 19:21, Amitava Shee <amitava.shee at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Kind> yesno 10
>
> <interactive>:1:6:
>     Ambiguous type variable `t' in the constraints:
>       `Num t' arising from the literal `10' at <interactive>:1:6-7
>       `Yesno t' arising from a use of `yesno' at <interactive>:1:0-7
>     Probable fix: add a type signature that fixes these type variable(s)
>

The literal 10 has type (Num n => n), however, due to ghci's defaulting
rules, it defaults to Integer, hence the error you've experienced.

Try yesno (10 :: Int), and check section 2.4.5 of [1].

[1]
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.2/html/users_guide/interactive-evaluation.html

Hope this helps,

-- 
Ozgur Akgun
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