overzealous defaulting?

[Simon Marlow]

There's some documentation on this in the User's Guide:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/x1075.html#GHCI-
DEFAULTING

Cheers,
	Simon

On 23 August 2004 17:15, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

> The binding
> 	let t = printQ
> falls under the monomorphism restriction.  The Haskell Report would
> not default (Show a), so you might think you'd get an "ambiguous type
> variable" error.  But it's so annoying to get this error for
> 	ghci> show []
> that GHCi is a bit more eager about defaulting ambiguous types: it'll
> apply defaulting if all the constrained classes are standard, and at
> least one of them is numeric *or* is Show, Eq or Ord.
> The *or* part is the non-standard bit.
> 
> Admittedly, I'm not sure this is documented.
> 
> Simon
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org
>> [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users- bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
>> Abraham Egnor 
>> Sent: 23 August 2004 16:02
>> To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
>> Subject: overzealous defaulting?
>> 
>> I'm not sure if this is an actual bug, as opposed to an odd instance
>> of defaulting: 
>> 
>> *GUI.Parser> let printQ q = runQ q >>= print
>> *GUI.Parser> :t printQ
>> printQ :: forall a. (Show a) => Q a -> IO ()
>> *GUI.Parser> let p = printQ
>> *GUI.Parser> :t p
>> p :: Q Integer -> IO ()
>> 
>> ...but I'm not sure when that would ever be the correct behavior.
>> 
>> Abe
>> _______________________________________________
>> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list
>> Glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
> _______________________________________________
> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list
> Glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users