enumeration oddity

Doug McIlroy doug@galehead.cs.dartmouth.edu
Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:07:31 -0400


Though I'm abusing enumerations, I'm surprised that a and b
give different answers (in Hugs 1.4 on Linux).  Is that intended?

       default (Integer,Rational)
       a = take 3 [1/1,3/2 .. 2/1]     -- [1%1,3%2,2%1]
       b = take 3 [1/1,3/2 ..]         -- [1%1,1%1,1%1]

Doug McIlroy