[Haskell-cafe] Problem with tuple with one element constrained

[Tyson Whitehead]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017, 16:02 Joshua Grosso <jgrosso1 at asu.edu <mailto:jgrosso1 at asu.edu>> wrote:

    /If/ I'm understanding correctly, GHCI's complaining about the fact that `return 2` requires it to create an instance of a `Monad`, but it doesn't know which `Monad` instance it should use...
    Does `let (x, y) = (1, return 2) :: (Int, Maybe Int)` work (where you can replace `Maybe` with any other monad)?


Hi Joshua,

Thanks for the input. You are correct that if I choose a particular Monad instance GHCi accepts the code.

I believe it should be able to do the assignment without choosing one though. It is, for example, okay with let y = return 2.

I'm thinking Sergiu is onto something about this having to do with special GHCi handling.

Thanks! -Tyson

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