[Haskell-cafe] Help with how to concatenate with own datatypes

[eldavido]

Hi, 
I´m doing a project in haskell and I need to define an operator that
concatenate some own defined data types, just like the operator ++ does for
lists. I don´t see how to define the operator recursively since this adding
function (:) doesn´t work on my own data types.
This is my code:
data Allele = Aone | Atwo
    deriving Show
type Lifespan = Int
data Population = Pop [(Allele,Allele,Lifespan)]
    deriving Show

genepool :: Population
genepool = Pop []

--can only concatenate 2 elements
(+-) :: Population -> Population -> Population
Pop [(a,b,c)] +- Pop [] = Pop [(a,b,c)]
Pop [(a,b,c)] +- Pop [(d,e,f)] = Pop [(a,b,c),(d,e,f)]

--and thats why this function goes non-exhaustive.
gpinsertaoneaone :: Int -> Int -> Population
gpinsertaoneaone 0 age = genepool
gpinsertaoneaone n age = Pop [(Aone,Aone,70-age)] +- gpinsertaoneaone (n-1)
age

Thx for help and advice!


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