Oops, forgot to reply-all again... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Smith <cdsmith@gmail.com> Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problem with forall type in type declaration To: Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds@gmail.com> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry, it was just a persudo code. This might be more clear:

run :: (Monad m) => m IO a -> IO a

Unfortunately, that's not more clear.  For the constraint (Monad m) to hold, m must have the kind (* -> *), so then (m IO a) is meaningless. I assume you meant one of the following:    run :: MonadTrans m => m IO a -> IO a or    run :: MonadIO m => m a -> IO a (Note that MonadIO is the class from the mtl package; there is no space there). Can you clarify which was meant?  Or perhaps you meant something else entirely? -- Chris Smith