Peter, This is a most excellent bug. Thank you. It turns out to be an obscure interaction in the context-simplication machinery between functional dependencies and superclasses.
I need to think about how to fix it, and I'm buried in reviewing right now, so I hope you are not utterly stuck. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Peter White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: 25 March 2002 21:38 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: fail: <<loop>> | | | Attached is a program that produces fail: <<loop>> when I | execute it. I am using the derived instance of Show for the | type LinuxObjectId. When I replace this with my own Show | instance (currently commented out in the source code), then | the program executes to completion. I am using Ghc version | 5.03.20020204 | | | | _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
