Lean pass type as parameter

Question

I am trying to do some category theory in Lean. However, I am not yet very fluent in type theory, and the following does not really seem to work:

class pset (S: Type) :=
(point: S)

class category (𝒞: Type) :=
(test: unit)

instance pset_category : category pset :=
{
  test := ()
}

I get a type mismatch at category pset , since pset has type Type -> Type , whereas it is expected to have type Type . What is going wrong?

Answer 1

I assume you want pset to be something like "pointed sets". So then its definition should be

class pset :=
(S : Type)
(point : S)

Now you will notice that #check pset tells you it has type Type 1 . So you still can't make it into a category , since you only defined "small" categories. If you change Type to Type* in the definition of category , all should be good.