Hi, The attached program does not typecheck if I don't include a type signature for 'bar' (the line C). I can't figure out if this is a limitation in the type system or a bug in GHC. One thing that confuses me is that replacing the line (B) with (A) makes the program typecheck. Could anyone help me figuring out what is going on? I'm using GHC 7.6.2. The error was: % ghc forall.hs [1 of 1] Compiling Foo ( forall.hs, forall.o ) forall.hs:18:11: Could not deduce (Fractional a) arising from the literal `0.1' from the context (Num (Scalar t), Scalar t ~ a) bound by a type expected by the context: (Num (Scalar t), Scalar t ~ a) => AD t at forall.hs:18:7-13 Possible fix: add (Fractional a) to the context of a type expected by the context: (Num (Scalar t), Scalar t ~ a) => AD t or the inferred type of bar :: a In the first argument of `foo', namely `0.1' In the expression: foo 0.1 In an equation for `bar': bar = foo 0.1 Regards, Takano Akio