[Haskell] Re: Overloading show

[Stephan Zaubzer]

Thank you to all 3 of you! That helped a lot!

karczma wrote:

> Stephan Zaubzer writes:
> 
>> Here my attempts:
>> data Entry a  = EmptyEntry | MakeEntry a a
>> showEntry :: (Show a) => Entry a -> String
>> showEntry EmptyEntry = "Empty"
>> showEntry MakeEntry a b = show a ++ ": " ++ show b
>> what am I doing wrong? I have seen this way on some tutorials.
> 
> 
> I believe that if you looked cautiously at the system response
> you would guess yourself.
> Parentheses missing, it should be
> showEntry (MakeEntry a b) = ...
> Jerzy Karczmarczuk
> ... who has a pleasure of correcting thousands students' programs
> per year, so this kind of error burns his eyes...
> 
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