[Haskell-cafe] Families of type classes

[Fraser Wilson]

On 11/6/05, Klaus Ostermann <ostermann at informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
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> instance Node Person where
> isConnectedTo g n (p1,p2) = (p1 == n) || (p2 == n)
>

At this point, isConnectedTo knows nothing about the third argument except
that it is an edge, and there's no reason to think that an Edge is a tuple.
All you can say is that there are two functions, n1 and n2, which extract
the nodes of the edge. Use those instead, for example

isConnectedTo g n p = n == n1 p || n == n2 p

 Couldn't match the rigid variable `e' against `(a, b)'
> `e' is bound by the type signature for `isConnectedTo'
> Expected type: e
> Inferred type: (a, b)
> When checking the pattern: (p1, p2)
> In the definition of `isConnectedTo':
> isConnectedTo g n (p1, p2) = (p1 == n) || (p2 == n)


Hopefully this error makes more sense now. It's saying that it expected
something of type 'e', but it found a tuple.

regards,
Fraser.
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