[Haskell-cafe] Unnecessarily strict implementations

[Stephen Sinclair]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Jan Christiansen
<jac at informatik.uni-kiel.de> wrote:
> I prefer
>
>  False <= _|_ = True

Sorry to go a bit off topic, but I find it funny that I never really
noticed you could perform less-than or greater-than comparisons on
Bool values.  What's the semantic reasoning behind allowing relative
comparisons on booleans?  In what context would you use it?  It seems
to me a throwback to C's somewhat arbitrary assumption that False=0
and True=1.

Steve