Re: [Haskell-beginners] List.sort

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Chaddaï Fouché wrote:

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Patrick LeBoutillier wrote:

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Does this make sense?

Yes, perfectly. I guess you just have to know about it... :)

Well, it's the lexicographic order, the most "natural", in any case the most used order for tuples, so it would be strange to have other expectations by default

Of course, the mechanism by which this work is interesting by itself.

Really interesting in fact. It shows how generic these concepts really are. But it wasn't obvious to me that a pair could be an instance of Ord. This kind of gives you a clue: Prelude> :info () data () = () -- Defined in GHC.Unit instance Bounded () -- Defined in GHC.Enum instance Enum () -- Defined in GHC.Enum instance Eq () -- Defined in Data.Tuple instance Ord () -- Defined in Data.Tuple instance Read () -- Defined in GHC.Read instance Show () -- Defined in GHC.Show but is there a way to do the equivalent of: Prelude> :info (a,b) or Prelude> :info (Int,String) ? Patrick

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