Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why is Day and Month bounded?

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 02:28:20PM +0100, David House wrote:

On 14/07/06, David Roundy wrote:

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Anyhow, just thought I'd mention that this isn't useful only for "ordinary" cyclic objects like dates.

Correct. Which is why Chris Kuklewicz included instances for, e.g., Int :)

Ah, that's what I get for just skimming the thread! :)

I think this would be a great class to have in the standard libs. It would be even better if we could derive it.

I agree, it sounds very nice (although I've obviously not even looked at the implementation). -- David Roundy