I clearly don't understand Haskell very deeply yet because I dealt with a couple of interesting types of bug this week. One sort was where, if I have, f :: SomeType -> Stuff ... f = whatever g :: Stuff ... g = f someValue ...then I can get an error that suggests that maybe I'm violating the monomorphism restriction if I put in f's type but not g's. If I put both in, it becomes happy. Another sort was where, if I had an algebraic parametric type (is that the name? Ord a => Foo a b c, etc.) then I couldn't have, say, a Maybe (Foo a b c), where sometimes I called it with a (Just foo) and sometimes with a Nothing, because with the Nothings it would complain about, erm, some ambiguity to do with Ord a. However, it would be fixed if I made the Maybe X argument into two arguments, Bool -> X, the Bool indicating if the X was meant to have been a Nothing or a Just X. I hope both (or either!) of those made sense. I don't have the code immediately to hand to reproduce the details, but I just thought I'd try to recall what they were because I found these compiler complaints interesting. I don't fully understand what's happening, and I'm sure a newbie would be quite bewildered. (-: -- Mark