Re: [Haskell-cafe] Sillyness in the standard libs.

On Nov 19, 2007, at 16:06 , Arthur van Leeuwen wrote:

here is a puzzle for you: try converting a System.Posix.Types.EpochTime into either a System.Time.CalendarTime or a Data.Time.Clock.UTCTime without going through read . show or a similar detour through strings.

fromEnum and/or toEnum are helpful for this kind of thing, and I am occasionally tempted to bind "cast = toEnum . fromEnum" because I need it so much. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH