[Haskell-cafe] Newbie question: alternative for toInt/fromInt

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:16:37PM +0200, peterv wrote:
> I'm trying to get the SOE graphics library to compile for Win32 using the
> latest libraries.
> 
> I fixed a couple of imports, but in the file GraphicsTypes.hs, the functions
> toInt/fromInt are used, which are now obsolete:
> 
> type Dimension = Int
> 
> toDimension    :: Win32.INT -> Dimension
> 
> fromDimension  :: Dimension -> Win32.INT
> 
> toDimension   = toInt
> 
> fromDimension = fromInt
> 
> I don't have a clue how to fix this, as I can't find alternatives for
> toInt/fromInt (except toInteger/fromInteger, but that would convert to
> heavyweight ints), but I guess it must be really easy? 

Try using fromIntegral (which is sufficiently polymorphic that it works
both ways).

Stefan