haskell - Haskell中的非法实例声明

Question

我尝试了以下代码

class Group a where
  (.+.) :: a -> a -> a
  (.-.) :: a -> a -> a
  zero :: a
  opposite :: a -> a

  x .-. y = x .+. opposite y
  opposite x = zero .-. x
  {-# MINIMAL (.+.), zero, (opposite | (.-.)) #-}

instance Fractional a => Group a where
  x .+. y = x + y
  zero = 0 :: a
  opposite = negate :: a -> a

但是在加载到GHCi中时，出现以下错误:

group1.hs:11:26: error:
    • Illegal instance declaration for ‘Group a’
        (All instance types must be of the form (T a1 ... an)
         where a1 ... an are *distinct type variables*,
         and each type variable appears at most once in the instance head.
         Use FlexibleInstances if you want to disable this.)
    • In the instance declaration for ‘Group a’
   |
11 | instance Fractional a => Group a where
   |    

我究竟做错了什么？

Answer 1

我能够编译您的示例:

{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances, UndecidableInstances #-}

class Group a where
  (.+.) :: a -> a -> a
  (.-.) :: a -> a -> a
  zero :: a
  opposite :: a -> a

  x .-. y = x .+. opposite y
  opposite x = zero .-. x
  {-# MINIMAL (.+.), zero, (opposite | (.-.)) #-}

-- data Fractional a = Fractional a a

instance (Fractional a, Num a) => Group a where
  x .+. y = x + y
  zero = 0
  opposite = negate

FlexibleInstances允许带有约束的未知类型的实例。基本上允许instance X a

我们需要的

UndecidableInstances，因为我们声明任何a都属于Group类，并且可以(不可避免吗？)通过几个不同的a声明导致Group属于instance。