On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Nov 19, 2007, at 16:06 , Arthur van Leeuwen wrote: > > > here is a puzzle for you: try converting a > > System.Posix.Types.EpochTime into either a > > System.Time.CalendarTime or a Data.Time.Clock.UTCTime without going > > through > > read . show or a similar detour through strings. > > fromEnum and/or toEnum are helpful for this kind of thing, and I am > occasionally tempted to bind "cast = toEnum . fromEnum" because I > need it so much.
Really? I'd like to know which examples these are. So far I suspected that 'cast' indicates not well chosen types. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
