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Defining a containing function on polymorphic list

I am trying to define a containing function to see if a value is one of the elements within a list which is polymorphic, but failed with the following codes:

contain :: a -> [a] -> Bool
> contain x [] = False
> contain x (y:ys) = if x == y then True else contain x ys

it seems that the problem is the 'operator' == does not support a polymorphic check?

Any way can solve the problem? or any alternative solution to achieve the purpose?

Thanks!

Raeck

By raeck at 2008-12-22 03:41 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 4303 reads

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the code is running under

the code is running under haskell

By raeck at Mon, 2008-12-22 03:42 | login or register to post comments

This question is not a

This question is not a general question about programming languages, and is not on topic for LtU. You should probably ask your question on a Haskell mailing list.

By Ehud Lamm at Mon, 2008-12-22 05:43 | login or register to post comments