[Haskell-cafe] Just 3 >>= (1+)?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 9, 2009, at 18:16 , Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> That's the only way I can get the error he got; if it uses Maybe as  
> the monad then why is the Maybe on the *inside* in the error  
> message?  Clearly it bound m to something else, and ((->) r) is the  
> only other one I can think of applying there.  (Hm, I suppose it  
> could be IO forced by the ghci context, but I didn't think it worked  
> that way.)


Er, clarifying:  it's looking for Num (Maybe a), but the context where  
Num applies is inside the scope where the Maybe applies (a -> m b has  
been fixed at Num n => n -> m n).  But the error message says ghc is  
trying to make *n* an instance of Num.

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