[Haskell-cafe] Why do I have to specify (Monad m) here again?

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On 2/18/07, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> Why do I have to specify (Monad m) here again?
>
> class (Monad m) => GetMV m a where
> ...
>
> instance GetMV m c where
> ...
>
> No instance for (Monad m)
>        arising from the superclasses of an instance declaration
> possible fix:
>        add (Monad m) to the instance declaration superclass context
>

The class just says that any instance *requires* an instance in Monad.
Nothing more.
So when you try to instantiate something in the class you have to
ensure that it has an instance in Monad. A type variable "m" has no
instance in the class "Monad" unless you constrain it to do so in the
instance declaration (by doing "Monad m =>").

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