[Haskell-cafe] Type inference problem with division (/)

30 Oct 2007

      Hi!

I have the following function:

theRemainder :: [String] -> [String] -> Double
theRemainder xs xt = sum( map additional (unique xs) )
	where
	additional x = poccur * (inf [ppos,pneg]) --inf takes [Double]
		where
		xsxt = zip xs xt
		pi = countPos xr -- countPos returns an Int
		ni = (length xr) - pi
		len = length xs
		len2 = length xr
		ppos = pi/len2 -- THESE ARE THE PROBLEM
		pneg = ni/len2 -- THESE ARE THE PROBLEM
		poccur = (pi+ni)/len
		xr = (filter ((\y -> (fst y)==x)) (xsxt))

And I am getting this error message with ghc:

matrix.hs:54:31:
    Couldn't match expected type `Double' against inferred type `Int'
    In the expression: ppos
    In the first argument of `inf', namely `[ppos, pneg]'
    In the second argument of `(*)', namely `(inf [ppos, pneg])'

How can I change the declaration of ppos nad pneg so they are treated as
Double for the inf function?

Cheers,
Nick
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