[Haskell-beginners] Re: Integer by default.

[Benjamin Edwards]

And for those functions  there are often generic counterparts defined in the
List module eg genericLength that take Integral types.

On 23 June 2010 15:52, Ertugrul Soeylemez <es at ertes.de> wrote:

> Hello Lyndon,
>
> it seems to me that Integer /is/ the default.  Probably you're unifying
> with some Int, for example when using functions like 'take' or 'length':
>
>  length :: [a] -> Int
>  take :: Int -> [a] -> [a]
>
>
> Greets,
> Ertugrul
>
>
> Lyndon Maydwell <maydwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi beginners.
> >
> > Is there a way to get the prelude functions to use Integer by default
> > rather than Int?
> >
> > I often have issues with Ints silently overflowing silently, but don't
> > often have speed issues.
> >
> > Somehow I don't think that this is possible, but... Maybe?
>
>
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