Hi,
Thanks for the pointers. So I’ve got

data M (n :: Nat) a = M [a] deriving Show

t2 :: M 2 Int
t2  = M [1,2]

t3 :: M 3 Int
t3 = M [1,2,3]

fx :: Num a => M n a -> M n a -> M n a
fx (M xs) (M ys) = M (zipWith (+) xs ys)

and having 
g = fx t2 t3

won’t compile. Which is what I want.
However…

t2 :: M 2 Int
t2  = M [1,2]

is ‘hardwired’ to 2 and clearly I could make t2 return  a list of any length. 
So what I then tried to look at was a general function that would take a list of Int and create the M type using the length of the supplied list. 
In other words if I supply a list, xs, of length n then I wan’t  M n xs
Like this

createIntM xs = (M xs) :: M (length xsInt

which compile and has type
λ-> :t createIntM 
createIntM :: [Int] -> M (length xs) Int

and all Ms created using createIntM  have the same type irrespective of the length of the supplied list.

What’s the type jiggery I need or is this not the right way to go?

Thanks

Mike




On 14 Mar 2019, at 13:12, Frederic Cogny <frederic.cogny@gmail.com> wrote:

The (experimental) Static module of hmatrix seems (I've used the packaged but not that module) to do exactly that: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hmatrix-0.19.0.0/docs/Numeric-LinearAlgebra-Static.html



On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 12:37 PM Francesco Ariis <fa-ml@ariis.it> wrote:
Hello Mike,

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:10:06AM +0000, mike h wrote:
> Multiplication of two matrices is only defined when the the number of columns in the first matrix
> equals the number of rows in the second matrix. i.e. c1 == r2
>
> So when writing the multiplication function I can check that  c1 == r2 and do something.
> However what I really want to do, if possible, is to have the compiler catch the error.

Type-level literals [1] or any kind of similar trickery should help you
with having matrices checked at compile-time.

[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1/docs/html/users_guide/type-level-literals.html
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