Bruno Oliveira writes:

 >> class Foo o where
 >>   (:+) :: o -> o -> o

The Haskell report specifies in section "2.4 Identifiers and
Operators":

  An operator symbol starting with a colon is a constructor.

Think of ':' as a character that is interpreted as "uppercase";
you can't use it to start a function or variable name.

Peter

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