Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does Haskell not infer most general type?

On Apr 6, 2010, at 15:56 , Job Vranish wrote:

Is haskell supposed to always infer the most general type (barring extensions)?

Look up the monomorphism restriction. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH