2008/12/22 Raeck Zhao <ra...@msn.com>
> Thank you very much for your reply! It is really helpful!
>
> But I just found another 'problem', I just realize that the list does not
> support the user-defined data type?
> the list is also depending on the Eq function?
>
> For example,
>
> data Shape = Square | Triangle | Circle
>
> when I type either
>
> [Square, Triangle, Circle]
>
This is perfectly legal, but GHCi won't be able to print it, because there
is no Show instance for Shape. You can declare one:
instance Show Shape where
show Square = "Square"
show Triagle = "Triangle"
show Circle = "Circle"
This can be generated automatically when you declare the type, by using:
data Shape = Square | Triangle | Circle
deriving (Show)
>
>
> or
>
> Square == Square
>
Similarly, to use (==), you need an Eq instance, which can be defined much
in the same way as the Show instance above (deriving also works on Eq --
don't generalize too hastily; not all classes work with deriving).
Luke
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