[Haskell] How to avoid both duplicate instances and extraneous instance declarations?

[Robin Bate Boerop]

This does not work.  The compiler gives the same error with or  
without "-fallow-overlapping-instances".

--
Robin Bate Boerop



On 22-Apr-06, at 12:39 PM, ihope wrote:

> On 4/22/06, Robin Bate Boerop <robin_bb at acm.org> wrote:
>> I am having trouble making a type system for my EDSL in Haskell.  Can
>> someone help?  A simplified description of my problem follows.
>>
>> I have three classes, A, B1, and B2.  I want all instances of B1 to
>> be instances of A.  I want all instances of B2 to be instances of A.
>> None of the classes have methods.
>>
>> The following does NOT work, because of a duplicate instance
>> declaration for A:
>
> I think with GHC, you can use the flag -fallow-overlapping-instances,
> and for GHCi, there's :set -fallow-overlapping-instances and then
> :reload.
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