Re: [Haskell-beginners] Error with floats in implementation of Horner's method.

Right. The problem is that when you write let a = [1,2,3,4] at the GHCi prompt, the Evil Monomorphism Restriction forces it to have a monomorphic type, and GHCi picks [Integer]. I recommend that you turn off the Monomorphism Restriction, which you can do in one of the following ways: 1) Type :set -XNoMonomorphismRestriction at the GHCi prompt 2) Add :set -XNoMonomorphismRestriction to your ~/.ghci file. If you do the latter then you only have to do it once, and from then on the MR will always be turned off in GHCi. With the MR turned off, let cs = [1,2,3,4] will result in cs :: Num a => [a] which will work the way you expect. -Brent On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:51:25PM -0500, Andrew Fleckenstein wrote:

I know Num is a class, and Double is an instance of the Num class. I guess using Num would make it more generic, but I don't see why either one would be better in this particular function.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote:

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On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Andrew Fleckenstein < andrew.fleckenstein@gmail.com> wrote:

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I know it has something to do with types,

Right! :)

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but whenever I try to add a type signature to the functions it just messes everything up even more.

This works: let a :: [Double]; a = [-1,2,-6,2]

This works too: let a :: Num a => [a]; a = [-1,2,-6,2]

What do you think are the pros and cons of either?

-- Kim-Ee

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