typeclasses
Tom Pledger
Tom.Pledger@peace.com
Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:46:25 +1200
Cagdas Ozgenc writes:
| Greetings.
|
| How can I make all types that belong to class A and instance of
| class B, if the implementations of functions in class B can be
| realized by only using the functions in class A?
|
| Thanks for taking time.
Something like this, you mean?
class A t where a::t
class B t where b::t
instance A t => B t where b = a
That's not allowed in Haskell 98. Section 4.3.2 of the report says
that the type in the instance declaration must consist of a type
constructor applied to zero or more type variables, but in "instance
... => B t where ..." the type (t) is not of that form.
Here are some ways to get around the restriction:
- Remove class B, and turn its methods into ordinary functions with
A in their contexts, or
- Use an overlapping instances extension.
I asked a similar question a couple of years ago. Here's the key
response.
http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell@haskell.org/msg05658.html
Regards,
Tom