[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why is Day and Month bounded?

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Fri Jul 14 10:07:06 EDT 2006


On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 02:28:20PM +0100, David House wrote:
> On 14/07/06, David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> wrote:
> >Anyhow, just thought I'd mention that
> >this isn't useful only for "ordinary" cyclic objects like dates.
> 
> Correct. Which is why Chris Kuklewicz included instances for, e.g., Int :)

Ah, that's what I get for just skimming the thread!  :)

> I think this would be a great class to have in the standard libs. It
> would be even better if we could derive it.

I agree, it sounds very nice (although I've obviously not even looked
at the implementation).
-- 
David Roundy


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