[Haskell-cafe] Default implementation of type class member function not working as expected.

[David Banas]

Hi all,

I have a typeclass, which defines the following two member functions:
(t is a Rose Tree.)

    getCompNodes   :: t -> [CompNode a]

    getAllCompNodes :: t -> [CompNode a]
    getAllCompNodes t = getCompNodes t
                     ++ (concatMap getAllCompNodes (subForest t))

The first one must be defined uniquely by each instance, but the second never needs a unique definition.
So, I provided its implementation in the typeclass definition, as shown.
However, I don’t get the expected behavior!
If I copy and paste the code, above, for getAllCompNodes into my instance definition, then I get the expected results.
Does anyone know why this is happening?

Thanks,
-db

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