Olaf Chitil wrote: | Admittedly, many Haskell beginners fall into the `show | []' trap.
Indeed. And this is a perfect example of the fact that all this bottom-dictionary passing does not work. The type of the list still matters though: Hugs> show ([] :: [Char]) "\"\"" Hugs> show ([] :: [Int]) "[]" /Koen _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell