[Haskell-cafe] Data.Typeable TypeRep Ord instance.

[Tianyi Cui]

Why should they? You can compare them in whatever way you like. And there
isn't a natural/inherent sense of total order between types.

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Serguey Zefirov <sergueyz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why TypeRep does have equality and doesn't have ordering?
>
> It would be good to have that.
>
> Right now when I have to order two type representations I convert them
> to string and then compare. This is somewhat inefficient and not quite
> straightforward.
>
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