The only thing I can think of is that you wrote a Num instance for Fraction. That allows it to represent a fraction as a literal 2 because you can create a fraction from an integer via fromInteger.

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:21 PM, mike h <mike_k_houghton@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

I’m modelling fractions with a view to looking at continued fractions and I have this recursive structure.

type Numerator = Integer
data Fraction = Numbr Integer | F Numerator Fraction

in ghci I do

λ-> :t F 1 (Numbr 2)
F 1 (Numbr 2) :: Fraction

which is fine. But what surprised me is that it also works without using Numbr e.g.

λ-> :t F 1 2
F 1 2 :: Fraction

why is this?

Thanks

Mike
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