Re: Ambiguous Type Error

1998-01-05 Thread Simon L Peyton Jones
> I have enclosed below a test file that causes an error that puzzles > me. Both GHC and Hugs kick it out, so at least they agree; however, I > must admit that I don't understand it. Yes, it is a bit confusing, and it took me a few minutes to see what is going on. Here's your problem: > data (

ICFP'98 Call for Papers

1998-01-05 Thread Jon Mountjoy
The 3rd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP '98) September 27-30, 1998 Baltimore, Maryland, USA URL: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~matthias/ICFP

Re: Ambiguous Type Error

1998-01-05 Thread David Barton
Simon: Thanks a million; that's just what I needed. Yes, I know the context on the type doesn't do anything. I just got in the habit of putting them in when I thought they did, and I haven't trained myself out of it yet. It seems useful documentation, if nothing else; however, if Standard Hask