[Haskell-cafe] Generating random enums

[Ketil Malde]

Rahul Kapoor <rk at trie.org> writes:

>> *Main> toEnum 2
>
> ghci does not know what type of enum you want to create from the number 2.
> Try: toEnum 2 :: DayOfWeek
>
> That said, I would expect "toEnum 2" to give an error like: 'Ambiguous
> type variable `a'....'. So I am not sure why your error message says:
> '** Exception: Prelude.Enum.().toEnum: bad argument'

Wild guess: The dread monomorphism restriction uses () as a reasonable
type, and it only has one element.  Does 'toEnum 0' give '()' as the
result? 

(I couldn't reproduce it with my version of GHCi - I get the ambigous
type error message)

-k
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