[Haskell] Perhaps a bug in GHC 6.10

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Wed Dec 3 10:41:44 EST 2008


On 2008 Dec 3, at 8:45, Krasimir Angelov wrote:
> Sudoku.hs:269:5:
>    Couldn't match expected type `Bool' against inferred type `a b'
>    In the expression:
>          ......
>
> Surprisingly the same code is accepted from GHC 6.10. This looks like
> a bug for me. The easiest way to reproduce this is to try to evaluate:


6.8.3 was changed on the theory that do "ought to" require a monad,  
contra Haskell98.  I suspect Haskell98 compatibility won.

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