Type Problem

Saswat Anand saswatan@comp.nus.edu.sg
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 16:28:01 +0800 (GMT-8)


Hi,  
  I am wondering how can I pass an overloaded function as a parameter
to another function. Consider the following example. I want to tell the
compiler that the argument `fun' in `trickyFun' definition is always
either ord' or chr', and hence it can find the correct overloaded version
in both the cases (1) & (2).

Thanks,
Saswat

class X a where 
 ord' :: a -> Int 
 chr' :: a -> Char

instance X Int where 
 ord' = id 
 chr' = chr

instance X Char where
 ord' = ord
 chr' = id

trickyFun fun = let x = fun (2::Int)       -----------(1)
		    y = fun 'c'            -----------(2)
		in "tricky"