On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Twan van Laarhoven wrote:

One piece of utility code that I find myself writing over and over again is the pointwise Num instance for tuples, i.e.

For my taste, writing

  2 :: (Int, Integer)

  abs (x,y)

should yield a compiler error and the compiler should not try to interpret it in some way. For the cases where you need these instances I suggest you use custom data types.

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