[Haskell-cafe] Re: Strange type error with associated type synonyms
Achim Schneider
barsoap at web.de
Wed May 27 17:34:55 EDT 2009
Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Error: type of x is Integer
> while type of read argument should be String
>
The problem with this is that the compiler can't know whether or not
the type of arguments to read should be a String, as someone could
have messed up read's signature. Granted, you have to have a knack for
semantic bickering to not just glance over the imprecision.
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