I ended up solving it by using a typeclass. My general experience of implicit types has been that they end up being a lot less useful than they appear. Getting the types right ends up being difficult and it is usually better just to be in a monad or as in this case to use typeclasses. I've begun to think of use of implicit types as a sign a "bad smell" in the code and if I have used one somewhere, I try to eliminate it because doing so usually results in better code overall. -Alex- ______________________________________________________________ S. Alexander Jacobson tel:917-770-6565 http://alexjacobson.com On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| So I guess the real question is, how do I pass a polytype* wpn?
and the answer is:
| On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | | > Implicit parameters have monotypes, not polytypes.
So an implicit parameter never has a polymorphic type. You can get around this, as Ben suggested I think, by using a newtype to wrap it up:
newtype WPN = WPN (forall a. Ev PassNet ev a -> Ev State ev a)
Simon
So ?f in g gets | > type (Char->Char). I rather doubt that something more general | > (implicit parameters get polytypes) would work, given the implicit | > "improvement" rules that implicit parameters require. | > | > Simon | > | > | -----Original Message----- | > | From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of | S. | > | Alexander Jacobson | > | Sent: 21 November 2006 19:28 | > | To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org | > | Subject: [Haskell-cafe] why are implicit types different? (cleanup) | > | | > | | > | | > | Why do g and g' have different types? | > | | > | g x y = let ?f = \x-> x in ?f x ++ (show (?f y)) | > | g :: [Char] -> [Char] -> [Char] | > | | > | g' :: (Show t) => [Char] -> t -> [Char] | > | g' x y = let f = \x-> x in f x ++ (show (f y)) | > | | > | Is there a way I can use implicit types and let g be as general as g'? | > | | > | -Alex- | > | | > | | > | ______________________________________________________________ | > | S. Alexander Jacobson tel:917-770-6565 http://alexjacobson.com | > | _______________________________________________ | > | Haskell-Cafe mailing list | > | Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org | > | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe | >