chr and ord not in standard prelude

Stefan O'Rear stefanor at cox.net
Fri Mar 9 18:17:59 EST 2007


On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:40:08PM -0500, Colletta, Edward wrote:
> When I try to use functions chr or ord, I get a not in scope error.
> If I ":browse Prelude" I do not see these functions.  Is there another
> module I should load?

Don't use chr and ord - they aren't polymorphic, they restrict your
code to work only on Chars.  Use fromEnum and toEnum (which are in the
Prelude) instead. 

Stefan


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