(I want to trim the headers, but don't know the history of this
thread. Also cc:ed back to the Haskell list.)
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:11:42AM +0200, Ketil Malde wrote:
> Dylan Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I agree that Enum instances for Float/Double are not likely to be
> > useful.
>
> From a gut feeling, I could see a use for expressions like
>
> [1.5, 1.6..] and [1.5, 1.6..2.0]
>
> (i.e. enumFromThen and enumFromThenTo) but enumFrom and enumFromTo
> making list of rounded integers seems strange to me.
>
> It seems to me that enumFromThen and -To could be implemented
> something like:
>
> enumFromThen beg next = beg : enumFromThen next (next+delta)
> where delta = next-beg
>
> similarly for enumFromThenTo, of course.
>
> i.e. depending only on functionality found in Num. Why not put these
> functions there, and remove Float and Double as Enum instances?
>
> What am I missing?
Currently you can write
data Day = Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Saturday
weekdays = [Monday..Friday]
which has nothing to do with Num.
Best,
Dylan Thurston
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