George,

Thanks for the response. If i take out the AllowUndecidableInstances i get no complaints and the compiler hangs. See this. Thus, i can find no observable difference for this flag in this particular code sample.

Best wishes,

--greg

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:34 PM, George Pollard <porges@porg.es> wrote:
This is precisely what AllowUndecidableInstances allows; the type
checking becomes possibly non-terminating. It should *eventually*
terminate because the stack depth is restricted.

- George



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