[Haskell-cafe] Typeclasses and instances

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Strange.  This is a bug in GHC that crept in when I implemented GADTs.
It turns out to be slightly structural; fixing it will change the
interface-file format.  So it won't get fixed in 6.4; but will in the
HEAD.    That doesn't bother me; the context on a data/newtype decl is a
strange thing anyway; only useful for generating extra errors...   but
yes, it's a bug thanks for pointing it out.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org
[mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Mark
| Carroll
| Sent: 17 March 2005 19:58
| To: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Typeclasses and instances
| 
| Another note, with more help from friends:
| 
| It turns out that GHC 6.4 will let me do,
| 
| 	newtype Floating a => Test a = Test [a] deriving Show
| 
| 	x = Test [False, True]
| 
| but, if I change "newtype" to "data", it then says,
| 
| 	No instance for (Floating Bool)
| 
| I'm not sure I quite understand what's going on.
| 
| -- Mark
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