On Wednesday 25 May 2005 01:09, Daniel Fischer wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 25. Mai 2005 00:46 schrieb Benjamin Franksen:
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 00:11, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:
On May 24, 2005, at 5:28 PM, John Meacham wrote:
[various ways of capturing options passed to functions discussed...]
data ParentsFlag = DontCreateParents | CreateParents deriving(Enum)
[more discussion...]
What about a type synonym? I think
type CreateParents = Bool
The thread started about readability at the call site. Using a type synonym for Bool needs to figure out what this "True" at call site means instead of understanding it right away. What about adding to the Daniel's definition: don'tCreateParents :: CreateParents don'tCreateParents = False createParents :: CreateParents createParents = True I'm not finding this fancy as the library user is not required to use them. Using constructors also emphasis which are options and which are not. Cheers, Jérémy.