On 2008 Dec 29, at 23:27, Justin Goguen wrote:
My purpose is to have operations such as ["aa".."bc"] be possible,
with its
result being ["aa", "ab", "ac" ..<snip>.. "ba", "bb", "bc"]
The example you provided for fromEnum seems to break down after a
string length
of about 5 or so.
It will; toEnum and fromEnum are defined in terms of Int, not Integer,
so they'll run into a maximum bounds issue. (See section 6.3.4 of http://haskell.org/onlinereport/basic.html)
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