On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:22:57PM -0600, Thomas Nelson wrote:
> I'm brand new to haskell and I'm having trouble using classes. The basic
> idea is I want two classes, Sine and MetaSine, that are both instances of
> ISine. This way I can use the act method and recurse through the metasines
> and sines. Here's my code:
>
> module Main
> where
>
> class ISine a where
> period :: a -> Integer
> offset :: a -> Integer
> threshold :: a -> Integer
> act :: (ISine b) => Integer -> a -> b
> on :: Integer -> a -> Bool
> --on needs offset, period, threshold
> on time self = (mod (time-(offset self)) (period self)) < (threshold
> self)
>
> data Sine =
> Sine {
> period :: Integer,
> offset :: Integer,
> threshold :: Integer,
> letter :: String
> }
>
> instance Sine ISine where
The other way round: instance class type where
Your errors have nothing to do with classes. Just try
module Main where
data MetaSine = MetaSine {period :: Integer }
data Sine = Sine { period :: Integer }
main = print "test"
which won't compile and show the same error
Solution?
1) single module solution:
a) using records: Use prefixes
data MetaSine = MetaSine {msPeriod :: Integer }
data Sine = Sine { sPeriod :: Integer }
b) using the same accessor function "period" requires classes
I think this is what you had in mind when introducing ISine
Of course you can add this to a), too.
data MetaSine = MetaSine Integer
data Sine = Sine sPeriod
class Period where
period :: Integer
instance Period Sine where period (Sine p) = p
instance Period MetaSine where period (MetaSine p) = p
2) use for each datatype another module. Then you can define record name
period more than once. But you have to access them using
ModuleSine.period or ModuleMetaSine.period which is not what you want I
think.
HTH Marc
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