[Haskell-beginners] Overloading resolution with numbers

[Amy de Buitléir]

 <j.romildo <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Why does (read "2" + 1) works, but (read "2.3" + 1) fail at runtime?

Try this:

read "2.3" + 1 :: Float

Or this:

read "2.3" + 1.0

The reason that your version didn't work is because GHCi is guessing that you
want the read operation to parse an Integer, since you're adding it to 1.