Hello Taral, Tuesday, August 15, 2006, 3:11:37 AM, you wrote:
>> > Do we complain about a duplicate instance declarations? >> >> yes. after all, this is just syntax sugar of giving both declarations: > Not necessarily. If A doesn't have any Functor declarations, it could > be considered just a Monad without a Functor. in this case we lose "class Functor a => Monad a" base class declaration. so what will be the meaning of this: class Monad m where instance Functor m return :: ... .... and this: class Monad m where instance Functor m where fmap = return ... return :: ... .... ? -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime