Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote (on 29-10-01 23:43 +0100): > you cannot use sections with types and (->). Furthermore the variable must > begin with a lowercase letter. So you have to write > instance Functor (->) a where.
Erp, I said that the Functor class has arity *. Actually, it has arity 1 (i.e., it is a unary relation on types), with the argument being of kind *->*. This is one of the infelicities of the class system. -- Frank Atanassow, Information & Computing Sciences, Utrecht University Padualaan 14, PO Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, Netherlands Tel +31 (030) 253-3261 Fax +31 (030) 251-379 _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell