[Haskell-cafe] How to use STArray?

Ketil Malde ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no
Fri Aug 26 02:59:28 EDT 2005


Udo Stenzel <u.stenzel at web.de> writes:

> You messed the argument order to readArray up.  Even with that repaired,
> you'll need a type signature somewhere to help ghc resolve the
> overloading of newArray and readArray, which is surprisingly tricky due
> to the "s" that must not escape.

I have struggled with this in the past, perhaps there is room for
improvement in GHC's error messages?  Instead of just talking about 's
escaping', perhaps it could hint that a specific type declaration
is what is needed?

-k
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