[Haskell-cafe] Re: instance Enum [Char] where ...

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Dec 29, at 23:27, Justin Goguen wrote:
> My purpose is to have operations such as ["aa".."bc"] be possible,  
> with its
> result being ["aa", "ab", "ac" ..<snip>.. "ba", "bb", "bc"]
>
> The example you provided for fromEnum seems to break down after a  
> string length
> of about 5 or so.

It will; toEnum and fromEnum are defined in terms of Int, not Integer,  
so they'll run into a maximum bounds issue.  (See section 6.3.4 of http://haskell.org/onlinereport/basic.html)

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