GHC 6.4 release candidates available
Simon Peyton-Jones
simonpj at microsoft.com
Mon Mar 7 03:39:13 EST 2005
| >If you could specify overlapping on a per-instance basis, then that
| >would be a way around the problem.
Yes, that's the solution I prefer. The only question is when to action
it....
| This worked in all GHCi before 6.4 - so something has broken the (in
mu
| opinion) correct
| behavior. Was this a deliberate decision - or has something just
changed
| without anyone realising?
I explained in an earlier message in this thread why the new behaviour
was an accidental consequence of lazy reporting of overlapping
instances.
Simon
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