It's not your class definition that is the problem -- your class definition is good. The problem is that when you interact with it using the REPL, you don't specify any particular type you want so it's ambiguous. Usually this is not a problem in actual programs that you compile because there's enough context for the type inferencer to figure out what type 'a' should be. You can give it enough context in the REPL either by annotating the value or by using some other typed thing, e.g. let a = 1:: Int If you really want it to only work on Int, then you shouldn't use a typeclass, instead just write the function directly -- plus :: Int -> Int -> Int plus = (+) -Ross On Nov 9, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Paul Tokarev wrote:
Thanks, that works. But how sould I change my class definition, so that it works without (2::Int), but just with 2?
Ross Mellgren wrote:
You did not specify what type of number it is -- in Haskell numeric constants like "1" are actually typed as forall a. Num a -- that is, can be any type of Num.
Try: plus (2::Int) 3
-Ross
On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Paul Tokarev wrote:
Hi.
I am using Hugs 98 I have that piece of code:
class PlusTimes a where plus :: a -> a -> a
instance PlusTimes Int where plus x y = x + y
when I run : "plus 2 3" I get this error: ERROR - Unresolved overloading *** Type : (Num a, PlusTimes a) => a *** Expression : plus 2 3
What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
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