[Haskell] Re: Partially applied type class functions

[Andre Pang]

On 07/08/2005, at 12:47 AM, Srinivas Nedunuri wrote:

> Finally a plain English explanation of the silly thing. Thank you!  
> I tried
> reading the Haskell report's version of it, and yes I'm sure it has  
> all the
> gory technical details, but at the end I was still left thinking So  
> exactly
> what is the monomorphism restriction? Why on earth couldn't they  
> have added
> a simple one line explanation like this?

If you're using GHC, a possibly very simple solution to your program  
is to add the -fno-monomorphism-restriction flag to the compilation,  
and pray you don't run into another type error ;)


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