[Haskell-beginners] Defining a containing function on polymorphic list

I am trying to define a containing function to see if a value is one of the elements within a list which is polymorphic, but failed with the following codes:

contain :: a -> [a] -> Bool

contain x [] = False

contain x (y:ys) = if x == y then True else contain x ys it seems that the problem is the 'operator' == does not support a polymorphic check? Any way can solve the problem? or any alternative solution to achieve the purpose? Thanks! Raeck

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