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Re: MPTCs and rigid variables

by Iavor Diatchki :: Rate this Message:

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Hello,

There is nothing wrong with this program.   I have run into this
problem and I consider it to be a bug/weakness of the type checking
algorithm used by the implementation.

(I also agree with you that the term "rigid variable" is rather
confusing because it is an artifact of the type checking algorithm
used by GHC.)

-Iavor

On 3/3/07, David House <dmhouse@...> wrote:

> class Foo a b | a -> b
> instance Foo Int String
> bar :: Foo Int b => b
> bar = "rargh"
>
> Is there any reason why that shouldn't work? GHC gives one of its
> silly "b is a rigid variable" errors (aside: that's a really confusing
> error; I'd prefer something like Hugs's "Infered type is not general
> enough").
>
> --
> -David House, dmhouse@...
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