precedence bug with derived instances

Christian Sievers sievers@math2.nat.tu-bs.de
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:25:11 +0100


Dean Herington wrote:

> > Why is that expression not type-correct?
> 
> [Answering my own question...]
> 
> Duh.  Because the type doesn't partake of Eq.

Right.  Of course, it's a different kind of error than for example
 [Orange] == Orange ---  where no Eq Color instance decl would help,
and I wonder if there is a special name for it.


Bye
Christian Sievers