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Abhay Parvate | 9 May 14:28
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help with polymorphic functions

You can also drop the type signature and see what type deduction you get in ghci :)
Your program would have compiled well without the type signature!
It's also a good exercise to come up with the most general type of a function that you write, and then compare it with the type that is deduced by dropping it from the code.
Of course in the final code many people would recommend that you put in the type declarations as a good form of documentation, and it may be also more specialized  according to your usage than what the compiler/interpreter will deduce.

Abhay

2008/5/9 Wei Yuan Cai <weiyuan.cai <at> gmail.com>:
Hello,

I'm having some trouble with a polymorphic function using another polymorphic function within. A simplified code of what I'm trying to do is as follows:

main = print $ test 1 8

test :: a -> Int -> a
test x n = shift x n

I get the following compilation error:

Could not deduce (Data.Bits.Bits a) from the context ()
      arising from a use of `shift' at test.hs:8:11-19
    Possible fix:
      add (Data.Bits.Bits a) to the context of
        the type signature for `test'
    In the expression: shift x n
    In the definition of `test': test x n = shift x n


shift is defined as "a -> Int -> a"

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks,
Weiyuan

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