Integer Enum ?

2001-12-13 Thread Frank Dellaert
Hi I'm not entirely clear how Integer can be an Enum instance. I thought Integer was arbitrary size, while for the Enum class you need to define a mapping from and to Int, which is bounded (in a machine dependent way, even ?). I'm probably missing something obvious... CheersFrank Dellaert

space efficiency question

2001-12-16 Thread Frank Dellaert
I'm not a compiler/interpreter implementer, just a Haskell user :-) My question is: if I have two datatypes, say   newtype Attributes = Att [String] data Instance = Instance Attributes [Int]   where an Attributes value describes the discrete attributes that are stored (as Int) in an Instance

Re: space efficiency question

2001-12-18 Thread Frank Dellaert
pointers happen to be the same, and only then do a full Eq comparison ?   Cheers Frank - Original Message - From: Simon Peyton-Jones To: Frank Dellaert ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:24 AM Subject: RE: space efficiency question Now: if