molleweide
Effective Haskell: ch 2 > destructuring lists
- The function I am testing is
handleNumson page 68.
It returns this error message:
λ: :reload
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Chapter2.hs, interpreted )
Chapter2.hs:306:1: error:
• Non type-variable argument
in the constraint: Show ((a -> Bool) -> Bool)
(Use FlexibleContexts to permit this)
• When checking the inferred type
handleNums :: forall a.
(Integral a, Show ((a -> Bool) -> Bool), Num ((a -> Bool) -> Bool),
Eq ((a -> Bool) -> Bool)) =>
[(a -> Bool) -> Bool] -> [Char]
|
306 | handleNums l =
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^...
Failed, no modules loaded.
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I sort of understand the err msg but I add this info here so you can see that this can happen to a reader.
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Did I post this information under the correct category. Is “errata” correct or should I have chose something else?
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The book is great! I’m chugging along and it feels really good.
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RebeccaSkinner
Author of Effective Haskell
Hi! Can you share the code that you are trying to load. I can’t reproduce this error from the example locally.
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