Oh, I see I wasn't thinking through the code (and I'm still in the honeymoon phase with Haskell, thinking it can do no wrong). Don Stewart wrote:
jamie.love:
Ah, of course.
Thanks. I removed the hPut and it runs smoothly. I had forgotten that haskell chooses the types dynamically.
Shouldn't haskell pick up that there is no 'mod' for Word8? I mean, shouldn't I get a nicer error message?
Well, it inferred Word8 for your generated values, so 256 overflowed to 0. Stating the expected type here would prevent that. (And is why mandatory top level declarations are good -- they can prevent bugs caused by an unexpected type being inferred).
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