Enum class
Ch. A. Herrmann
herrmann@infosun.fmi.uni-passau.de
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:57:20 +0200
Hi Haskellers,
assuming that the type class "Enum" represents enumeration
types, there are two questions for me:
(1) What is the justification for the types "Float" and "Double"
to be members of the type class "Enum"? This might induce students
to use floating point values as counters in arithmetic
sequences.
(2) Why not make tuples of bounded enumeration types
themselves bounded enumeration types? E.g.,
[(False,False)..(True,True)]
could evaluate to
[(False,False),(False,True),(True,False),(True,True)]
and it is comprehensible since the ordering in the sequence
equals the lexicographic ordering imposed on tuple comparison.
Cheers
Christoph