[Haskell-cafe] Data.Hashable instance generation?

[Matti Nykänen]

Hello,

A practical question about getting hashing to work.

Having used Data.Map before, I wanted to try Data.HashMap.Lazy instead:
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{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}

 import Data.HashMap.Lazy as HM
 
 import GHC.Generics (Generic)
 import Data.Hashable

 data Colour = Red | Green | Blue
               deriving Generic

 instance Hashable Colour
 
 foo = HM.insert Red
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The data and its instance definition are directly from the web page <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hashable-1.2.1.0/docs/Data-Hashable.html>.

However, I det the following error:
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GHCi, version 7.6.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( htest.hs, interpreted )

htest.hs:13:8:
    No instance for (hashable-1.1.2.5:Data.Hashable.Hashable Colour)
      arising from a use of `insert'
    Possible fix:
      add an instance declaration for
      (hashable-1.1.2.5:Data.Hashable.Hashable Colour)
    In the expression: insert Red
    In an equation for `foo': foo = insert Red
Failed, modules loaded: none.
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I do not know what is wrong or how I could fix it.

Note that my Haskell had originally the older hashable-1.0.0 package, but I cabal-installed this hashable-1.1.2.5 because surfing the net suggested that it would be much better. Could it be the case that the instance goes somehow in the wrong class?
-- 
Matti Nykänen