> > type GNode a = a
>
> Thanks for the report - this bug is new to us. You are right that nhc98
> should accept this program, and that the error message is confusing.
This bug is now fixed in CVS. A patch for nch98-1.16 is available
from the downloads webpage.
http://haskell.org/nhc98/download.html
ftp://ftp.cs.york.ac.uk/pub/haskell/nhc98/patch-1.16-typesyn
Regards,
Malcolm