RE: incompatible signatur syntax within instance definition

2003-12-15 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| This is legal in Haskell 98, because the `a' in the inner declaration is | implicitly universally quantified. But if the scope of the outer type | variable `a' extends over the inner type declaration, then the inner `a' | will not be locally universally quantified, and the call to `bar' will |

Fail: unknown exception

2003-12-15 Thread George Russell
This has to be one of the most irritating ways a program can fall over. Can't the Haskell RTS try just a /little/ harder to help the poor programmer? For example by saying what sort of exception it is, and (if it's a dynamic exception) what type it has?