[Haskell-cafe] How to define an operation in terms of itself (but of different type)?

[Olex P]

Hello Haskellers!
It's probably a simple question but I can't find a proper solution...
Suppose we have a class Vector which overloads (+) operation. I'd like to
represent a Matrix data type as a set of vectors:

data Matrix3 = M3 !Vector3 !Vector3 !Vector3

In this case (+) for matrices could be implemented as:

 (M3 r11 r12 r13) + (M3 r21 r22 r23) = M3 (r11 + r21) (r12 + r22) (r13 +
r23)

But GHC says about ambiguous occurrence. I don't understand why because it's
should be pretty clear that rows are vectors and (+) has to be vector type
as well. I could use Vector.+ instead but it doesn't look good.
Probably I'm missing something. Any ideas?

Cheers,
Oleksandr.
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