functional dependency syntax?

Malcolm Wallace Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk
Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:50:22 +0000


I'm trying out MPTC with functional dependencies for the first time
in GHC.  However, I'm not sure of the syntax.  MPJ's ESOP 2000 paper
gives the following example:

  class FiniteMap i e fm | fm -> (i,e) where
    emptyFM    :: fm
    lookupFM   :: i -> fm -> Maybe e
    extendFM   :: i -> e -> fm -> fm

but ghc (5.02.2 and 5.04.1) complain

    $ ghc-5.04.1  -fglasgow-exts    -c  -o FunDep.o FunDep.hs
    FunDep.hs:10: parse error on input `('

where the indicated line is that of the class declaration.  What should
the syntax be if it is not the above?

Regards,
    Malcolm