Question

I am trying to define a data type using other data types like this:

data A = Something String | SomethingElse Int

data B = Another B | YetAnother A

data C = A | B

x :: [ C ]
x = [ YetAnother (SomethingElse 0), Something "Hello World" ]

But this is giving me an error saying that I cannot have a type A when expecting a type B. Why is this?

Answer 1

You’re missing the data constructors for C.

data A = Something String
       | SomethingElse Int

data B = Another    B
       | YetAnother A

data C = C0 A
       | C1 B

x :: [ C ]
x = [ C1 (YetAnother (SomethingElse 0))
    , C0 (Something "Hello World")
     ]