Not sure exactly what you want to know, but in the language report it
says "For an enumeration, the first and last constructors listed in
the data declaration are the bounds".
http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch11.html#x18-1850001...
On 14 June 2011 14:07, Haisheng Wu
Hi guys, What I understanding `deriving` is Haskell automatically make a type to be a instance of a particular typeclass. If that's the case, the question is How does Haskell do that underline?
Take code below as sample, the type Day is now an instance of Bounded.
data Day = Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday deriving (Bounded, Enum)
Therefore, minBound :: Day will produce Monday.
Just be curious how it is being implemented.
Thanks. Simon
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