On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 02:45:26PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 14:32, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > > Dear GHC developers, > > > > Probably, it is better to provide Integer > > or Integral a => a > > instead of Int > > in the function > > sizeFM :: FiniteMap k e -> Int > > > > What do you think of this? > > Are you planning to put more than 2^31 entries into your FiniteMap?
Why not? I never use Int. Writing a program I imagine it to perform on various machines, and also the ones to appear in future. To my mind, the program itself should not change from machine to machine. > I don't think I could afford a machine with the >16GB of ram necessary > to do that. > > I guess this same argument took place over the Prelude.length function. > The conclusion was to add List.genericLength :: Num a => [b] -> a > So, we probably need genericSizeFM ... ----------------- Serge Mechveliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
