[Haskell-cafe] Custom Enum instance with non-consecutive indices

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

Nicolas Trangez <nicolas at incubaid.com> writes:

> On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 16:52 +0200, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
>> Hi Nicolas,
>> 
>> The simplest approach would be to use the standard (derived) Enum
>> instance that would be used for enumerations (like [Flag1..]), and
>> have your own functions to convert to/from magic constants. 
>
> Sure, but that kind-of defeats the purpose... fromEnum/toEnum would then
> return some nonsensical integer value.

...then don't derive an 'Enum' instance for that :-)

what do you hope to gain from making your flags type an instance of the
Enum class?