[Haskell-begin] data declarations

Roger Myers rogermyers at ymail.com
Tue Jul 22 23:01:23 EDT 2008


hi

Not sure if I'm on the right track here, so as a beginner I thought I'd ask on 
this list.

I want to declare a type 'All' that consists of the of the types 'Tinteger, 
Tbool, Tstring, Tarray' but I would also like to make a relationship that 
Tinteger and Tbool are also the type 'Simple' and that 'Tstring' and 'Tarray' 
are 'Composite' and that Mixed is then either Simpletype or Composite.

So I can then write a function that takes a type of All and produces a list of 
Mixed.

data All = Tinteger Int
              | Tbool Bool
              | Tstring String
              | Tarray [Alltypes]

data Simple = Tinteger
            | Tbool
data Composite = Tstring
               | Tarray

data Mixed = Simple
           | Composite

k :: All -> [Mixed]
k a = case a of
        Simple s -> [Simple s]
        Composite c -> [Composite c]


But this isn't valid Haskell code because I can't have multiple declarations of 
the same types, is there a way to specify a relationship, if so can someone 
point me in the right direction?

Roger



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