type of (/) ?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 09-Dec-2003, Yaroslav Korchevsky <jslav at mail.ru> wrote:
> ================================
> my_avg list =  (accum list) / 5 --works fine
> ================================
> xx = 5
> my_avg list =  (accum list) / xx --doesn't work
> -- same message as above
> ================================

The infamous monomorphism restriction (Haskell Report section 4.5.5)
strikes again.

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