Because insertWith has a different type than your code needs.
It's not like a -> b -> b, it's a -> a -> a and (:) is not like this.
Try insertWith (++ or flip (++)) [("Moby", "Dick")] ....
2011/5/11 michael rice
It's hard to improve on a 20 line Awk program for generating text but I thought it would be fun to investigate a Haskell solution.
Why can't I cons an element onto an existing list?
Michael
Prelude Data.List Data.Map> insertWith (:) ("Moby", "Dick") "will" (fromList [(("Joe", "Blow"),["is"]), (("Moby", "Dick"),["may"])])
<interactive>:1:11: Occurs check: cannot construct the infinite type: a = [a] Expected type: a Inferred type: [a] In the first argument of `insertWith', namely `(:)' In the expression: insertWith (:) ("Moby", "Dick") "will" (fromList [(("Joe", "Blow"), ["is"]), (("Moby", "Dick"), ["may"])]) Prelude Data.List Data.Map>
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