Frank wrote:
I have observed the error message (ghci 6.4)
Functional dependencies conflict between instance declarations:
LocTest.hs:16:0: instance B S Bool
LocTest.hs:22:0: instance (F f, B a b) => B (f a) (f b)
when I changed in an instance from a simple type to a type with a
parameter (i.e. from Int to (Int, Bool)).
The following minimal program demonstrates the problem:
an instance with type S (= T Float) conflicts with B (f a) (f b)
whereas the comparable instance with data R (= R Float) does not.
Is this intentional? How can it be avoided?
Help is greatly appreciated!
Andrew
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class F f where
m2 :: (a -> b -> c) -> f a -> f b -> f c --zipWith
class B a b | a -> b where
dist2 :: a -> a -> b
instance B S Bool where -- line 16
dist2 a d = True
instance B R Float where
dist2 a d = 1
instance (F f, B a b) => B (f a) (f b) where -- line 22
dist2 a b = m2 dist2 a b
data T f = T f
type S = T Float
data R = R Float
Suppose you later declared T as an instance of F so that one particular F f
would be F T.
Then if S = T Float then one instantiation of (f a) could be (T a) where f =
T, so the two instantiated instance decls would look like:
instance B (T Float) Bool where -- line 16
instance B (T a) (T b) where -- line 22
and the functional dependency says that the 'b' (in the class decl) would be
Bool by line 16 and T b for some b by line 22 if 'a' was instantiated to
Float. However there is no 'b' such that Bool = T b.
Regards, Brian.
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