Type level programming: Dealing with ambiguous type error
Haskell Community [Unofficial]
March 19, 2026
AllowAmbiguousTypes will just push the logical problem elsewhere. A required type argument won’t help because x is highly dynamic.
There seems to be two possible approaches here:
Somehow get the compiler to understand the relationship between
m,nandxin the way that it can work here. This is my preferece, but I’m open to the fact that it might not be possible.Thread through a singleton for
x. This is complicated by the fact that it is not trivial to know whatxis at any given point. I think I will try implementing an algorithm that passesxin the dumb-list version of my machine.
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