Am 18.04.2014 21:26 schrieb "Gilberto Melfe"
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Names can't be enumerated. What comes after "John"? I don't know.
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"a" to "z" then "aa" to "zz" then "aaa" to "zzz" and so on! Is it to difficult or impossible to create a function that enumerates all possible strings?
Following your theory the next "name" would be "Joho", is that a name or just random letters? That's why you don't have predecessor or successor functions on String.
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To make a list with all the numbers from 20 to 1, you can't just do [20..1], you have to do [20,19..1].
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Why is this? If the first was greater than the second it would just subtract! Right?
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Watch out when using floating point numbers in ranges! Because they are not completely precise (by definition), their use in ranges can yield some
I would be with you, but that's not how it is designed. We can't change the given behavior. pretty funky results.
ghci> [0.1, 0.3 .. 1] [0.1,0.3,0.5,0.7,0.8999999999999999,1.0999999999999999]
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Can anyone explain me why it works for the first few values, and not
"completely"? To explain that we had to go into how floating point numbers are represented internally in the PCs memory, I'm to tired to do that right now. But problems comparable to this one exist on every language that has floating point numbers. HTH Norbert