[Haskell-cafe] Overlapping instances

[Frank]

I would like to state that a class Sup is exhaustively broken down in two
subclasses Sub1 and Sub2 (meaning, for every instance of Sub1 and every
instance of Sub2, the methods in Sup apply). 

I try to code this as:

instance Sub1 x => Sup x 
instance Sub2 x => Sup x 

And get the (expected) error message
ExhaustiveClass.hs:22:0:
    Duplicate instance declarations:
      ExhaustiveClass.hs:22:0: instance (Sub1 x) => Sup x
      ExhaustiveClass.hs:25:0: instance (Sub2 x) => Sup x
(I have allowed overlapping instances, undecidable instances)

Is there another way of achieving this? 
Any help appreciated!

Andrew



----------------- complete code I tried with:
class Sub1 a where
    op1 :: a -> a
    
class Sub2 a where
    op2 :: a -> a -> a
    
class Sup a where
    op3 :: a -> Bool


instance Sub1 Int where
    op1 = id
instance Sub2 Float where
    op2 x y = y

instance Sub1 x => Sup x where
    op3 _ = True
    
instance Sub2 x => Sup x where
    op3 _ = False

But get

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