Re: [Haskell-cafe] Wondering if this could be done.

On 11/21/10 10:48 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

Hi, For example, I have a data A defined. Then I want to add (+) and (-) operators to it, as a sugar (compared to addA/minusA). But * or other stuff defined in class Num is meanless to A. So I just do: (+) :: A -> A -> A (+) a b = A (elem1 a + elem1 b) (elem2 a + elem2 b) -- I got errors here, for the (+) is ambiguous.

So, just wondering, does this way work in Haskell?

One solution to this problem is to use slightly modified operators, such as ".+." and ".-.", or anything else that crosses your fancy and is accepted by the compiler. Cheers, Greg