[Haskell-cafe] Function to cast types

[Anonymous Anonymous]

Hello,

an answer from me, this is NOT the homework assignment. For my own homework
assignment, I had to create custom data types and convert a string
containing my datatype into my datatype. I will not expose my datatype, but
it is something with logical operators.

My approach would be using "operator recognition", I've written a function
that can search those "operators". However I was wondering how they would do
it with intergers because intergers are in a infinity set! But I couldn't
figure it out =(.

Thanks for answering you all!

2009/3/22 John Dorsey <haskell at colquitt.org>

> Anonymous One,
>
> > I'm new to haskell, I'm wondering how can you write a function that will
> do
> > the following:
> > fromIntToString :: Int -> String
>
> Is this a homework assignment, perchance?  Please take a look at
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Homework_help
> Everyone here is glad to help, but we're also sensitive on academic
> honesty.
>
> With that said, you've done the first step, which is writing down the
> function's type.  You don't want to iterate over all possible Int
> values, so maybe a recursive definition is in order.  What are the cases
> to consider?  Like, what happens if you have a negative number...
>
> > this is a cast function to cast an Int to a String. I know such function
>
> By the way, "cast" is probably the wrong word for what you want.  You're
> building a string representation of an Integer; in my view it's not "just"
> a type conversion.
>
> Good luck,
> John
>
>
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